Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

Trevor,

 -mark

At 12/11/06 12:41 AM, you wrote:

Mark,

You have the terms GUI and HTML mixed up. HTML is a TEXT markup language and
not a GRAPHICAL language. Sure, it can align graphic objects, but it
provides a very poor/thin GUI experience.

Trevor

----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch


> James,
>
>  Today, a native GUI would have to map to HTML in a browser.
>
>  -mark
>
> At 12/9/06 09:46 AM, you wrote:
>>Tom Liotta <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > 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?
>>. . .
>>
>>Given the directions terminal evolution was going when IBM
>>stopped 5250 data stream development at the 3489, I would
>>say that at least the rudimentary building blocks of a
>>native GUI were already there: IBM simply never bothered
>>to provide the tools for developers to access the power
>>hiding in the InfoWindow II series terminals.
>>
>>I stand by my previous comment that if they'd simply
>>provided adequate tools to develop for the InfoWindow II,
>>and had continued to develop the interface, we'd HAVE the
>>bloody native GUI!
>>
>>--
>>JHHL