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Pete Helgren wrote:

Since IBM did such a GREAT job on integrating all these things as you have well outlined, why did they NOT integrate the GUI ?

I have no idea what this means. How do you 'integrate the GUI' on any large multi-user system?

I mean, do you add a GPU each time you add a user? Or buy a new monitor/keyboard/mouse to plug into a kind of "brick" with an Ethernet port leading back to the System i, like a net-station? Or the 5292 graphics workstation? Or X-windows? Or Java RAWT (NAWT, whatever) which was actually available almost from the beginning but who out there clamoring for GUI ever worked through using it? Or use any browser (which hardly seems "integrated")?

Or do we mean that i5/OS should somehow automatically manipulate Windows GUI elements? Linux desktop GUI elements? Or GUI elements on any new desktop OS that gets released next month?

I suspect that there's isn't anything resembling a clearly understood and widely accepted definition of what "integrate the GUI" means. How about starting with some basic requirements?

Tom Liotta


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