Re: Thoughts in Random Order

["Brad Clements" <bkc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 Nov 99, at 14:09, Jason M. Felice wrote:

> > The basic functions that the terminals use are very similar, it's 
> > just that they use different opcodes to accomplish those functions.
> > 
> 
> I've often wondered what the reasoning behind this was, did they just
> design 5250 to handle more processing on the client end, or what?
> 


No, thank Judge "whats his name" for splitting up IBM into divisions as 
part of the anti-trust thing years ago. The AS/400 and 5250 camp were 
seperated from 3090/3278 group.

They're different just to be different, or so that's what I was told.

I suspect something similar might happen to Microsoft soon.


Brad Clements,                bkc@murkworks.com   (315)268-1000
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