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My guess would be that the cell's design while great for graphics, also turns
out to be great for work
with lots of certain mathematical operations.

AMD/ATI I believe pioneered running SETI@Home (or something similar) on your
graphics card.

I'd guess IBM putting the cell chip into their mainframes would be for similar
work.

Charles


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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:01 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: RPG UI Frameworks was->RE: Fw: Enhancements to RPG

I read in the Business section of this morning's paper that
IBM was going to start putting the PS3 chip on "mainframes."
No specifics as top what mainframes meant, could be just the
zSeries, could include the i and, even, p.


The PS3 chip is the one that IBM and Sony developed for kick
butt graphics on the Playstation. Not being a double E
myself, I'm not sure what the actual implications for the UI
on the System i5 might be. But with the myriad of assaults
(under the radar for the most part) by IBM on M$ turf, I
wouldn't be surprised if this was another one in some form or fashion.


Or maybe it's just a graphics card.


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Bob Cozzi wrote:
Aaron,
Believe me, I've been a proponent of GUI with RPG for
decades. Believe
me, I drank that Kool-Aid long before you learned to drive.
I welcome
you to the on-going battle. To me, Web/Browser interfaces
via CGILIB
or others are the closest we've come to a great RPG GUI so far. The
guys at eXport Ventures did a great graphical, event driven
RPG user
interface years ago--but it didn't take off very much.

Most of this event-driven stuff really needs an OS that can handle
dispatching the event messages. Certainly OS/400 can do
that, but it doesn't.
However, a Web/Browser interface can already do
event-driven stuff via
AJAX and regular CGI calls to RPG or any language. What would be
beneficial is the ability to "AJAX to" a subprocedure
directly rather
than only to a program. I'm not certain if that's much
better from a
performance standpoint than just leaving a CGI program
active in its
A/G and reactivating it, but it would be cooler. :)



-Bob Cozzi
www.i5PodCast.com
Ask your manager to watch i5 TV



-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces+bob=rpgworld.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces+bob=rpgworld.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
albartell
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:04 AM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RPG UI Frameworks was->RE: Fw: Enhancements to RPG

<Cozzi said>Class (5) items are similar to class (3) items in their
importance. Sure it would be cool to have, for example, integrated
CGI/Web built-in functions in RPG IV, but that would have been
important in 1998, or
2002 or 2004 or 2006. In 2008 and beyond it is sort of like adding
Pointer Support to CL in 2006. Why do I care? I've already
coded all
the CL I'm ever going to code. By 2008 or 2009 I've already written
tons of CGI/Web stuff using xTools, CGIDEV2, or Brad's eRPG
library or
even using the CGI APIs so why would I care? (CGI/RPG is just an
metaphor here.)

<Aaron responds with>
Bob, I don't think you are recognizing the significance of
why people
are leaving in droves off of the iSeries. They aren't
leaving because
RPG is a bad business logic language. They aren't leaving
because the
iSeries is an unstable platform. Many are leaving because
of look and
feel - plain and simple. The cost to get to that new look
and feel on
the iSeries is simply more expensive than going to .NET (at
least initially).

The reality of the matter is that most, if not all, of the CGIDEV2
equivalents out there are simply one step above doing raw
CGI. If I
had not worked with frameworks in PHP and Java then I would be
standing right next to you with what you are saying, but there is a
lot to be said about a solid and easy to use Web/GUI thick client
framework. Having to write less plumbing saves a lot of time (i.e.
look at CHAIN vs. SQL single record SELECT).

As I said in another post awhile back, RPG is fairly well
suited for
an event driven UI framework because of procedure pointers and
callback capabilities. Just think if there was an RPG "router"
program that front ended your RPG program that had business
logic and
screen flow code. Every time an event (e.g. specific customer
selected from an HTML table) occurred it would send the
current form
to the RPG router program on the server. The router program would
then gain entry into your RPG program by way of procedure
pointer (see example code below).

D cust_listselect_event...
D PI
D pSessUId 15P 0 Value
D pEvtTyp 10 Value
D pUIObjNam 50 Value


D cstNum s 10u 0
/free

cstNum = RPGUI_getSelectedRowUnqId(pSessUId);
RPGUI_addControllerParm('EditCust': cstNum); //
Priming next
screens input values
RPGUI_displayScreen('EditCust');

/end-free


I am debating whether to pursue that thought with a full
prototype.
Does anybody else see the potential that I am seeing?

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com




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