Re: iSeries ads taken over by xSeries

Agreed. But you and which other developer in the US of A actually take the time 
to make sure tab order is sensible and efficient, that there are keyboard 
shortcuts available, so that there is no need to use a mouse and depend on your 
eye for finding where you are? The latter especially is a reason for GUIs being 
so slow - you have to SEE where you are typing, whereas with character-based 
interfaces you can touch-type. Now having said all that, it IS possible to 
write a decent GUI. But again, how many do it? Even IBM does not have web 
designers that always position you to the user ID on a login page. And that is 
not hard.

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Trevor Perry" <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

> Poor implementation of a GUI does not make 5250 better! 
> 
> :-) 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don" 
> Subject: Re: iSeries ads taken over by xSeries 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Jerry, 
> > 
> > What WAS interesting was talking to a IT Dir at a casino/hotel that had 
> > wanted to replace all the front desk check in 5250 devices with 
> > GUI/Windows... The front desk people bitched so loudly that GUI/Windows 
> > was slowing them down that the GUI was replaced accross the board with 
> > 5250 
> > devices again... :) 
> > 
> > Don in DC 
> 
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