Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence -- MIDRANGE-L

Alrighty then! I propose that henceforth and forevermore the interfaceformerly known as 'Green Screen' shall be known as the Non ProgrammableTerminal User Interface or NPTUI. (Pronouncd "en-patooey"). This waythe thing doesn't have the stigma of oldness, greenness, or forced to be24 rows of 80 characters and gets to take it's place amount the otherforms of User Interfaces.

I will however only accept the replacement of the 'green screen' name ifall who read here promise to no longer use such equally antiquated termsas AS/400, and iSeries and promise only to use the names System i andSystem i family.


Deal, or no Deal?

  - Larry

ps: I saw an Infowindow II with a mouse connected once. It also had anice little mouse holder stuck to the upper right side of the terminal.The mouse once connected to the terminal was placed in the holder andI'm quite certain it was never, ever, removed from that holder.


James H H Lampert wrote:

Some comments:
1. I loathe and detest the pejorative "green screen." WhenI first learned to code, over a quarter-century ago,terminals with a green-phosphor tube were regarded as aluxury, with a substantial premium on the pricetag; theterminals I had in high school and at the University were,almost without exception, equipped with white P4 phosphortubes no different from those in black-and-whitetelevision sets.
2. Monochrome terminals (and monochrome computermonitors)of the past twenty years have often used amber,rather than green, screens, because studies have shownthat while a green long-persistence screen is lessfatiguing to look at than a white P4 screen, amedium-persistence amber screen is even less fatiguing.
3. At Touchtone, we have three actual twinax terminals: a3489 with a color monitor and a 3477FA (amber), both at mydesk, and a Yestation with a color monitor as the console.The last terminal we had with an actual green screen wasour 3180, which eventually developed a short so bad itmade the fuses go off like flashbulbs.
4. InfoWindow II terminals have mouse support.
5. It's entirely possible to put an emulation session in aweb browser, and even make it available for public use; weuse our ThinView product to put an emulation session in abrowser for our new "code-on-demand" self-serviceauthorization code system.
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JHHL