RE: Who is telling stories out of turn? -- MIDRANGE-L

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One of my brother-in-laws was CFO and VP at Advance Auto :-)

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 11:39 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Who is telling stories out of turn?

I don't recall the guy using a mouse; it was definitely a
character-based terminal. It's been awhile since I walked into Advance
Auto, Napa, etc.

That same day I went into hh gregg to buy a microwave. The front-end
was GUI, and, since the clerk couldn't read the salesman's handwriting,
he had one heck of a time finding the item number. Most of our orders
come in order comm. Lines, but we still use old 5250 screens (RPG II
actually) to enter manual orders. Item lookup (on a variety of
criteria) takes seconds. The lookup is an RPG IV program I wrote and
hooked into the old program, but the point is that, as Paul implies,
it's usually a matter of how the function is going to be used and how it
is implemented.

Jerry

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