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Mainframe manual demo

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Mainframe manual demo

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- [Instructor] Before we try to do anything, I'll just double-click on the mainframe shortcut on my desktop here to open up a mainframe window, and I'm blurring some things out here because mainframes aren't easy to come by. You usually have to find them within a company you work at, and there are some things that I just can't show you in this mainframe window as a result. Ultimately, mainframes are pretty simple to interact with. What you're mostly going to be doing is typing text using things like special keys, like the Tab key or the F keys like F1, F2, and F3, and then reading some information on the screen to ensure that the right thing happened. The nice thing about a terminal is that it's very low latency, meaning things happen instantly after you perform an action, whereas with a web application, you often have to wait around for pages to refresh and things like that. So, you can see that the cursor is waiting for me to type something up at the top left of the screen. What…

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