Re: RLU (vs) handcoded prtf DDS

[John Carr <74711.77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RE:     Re: RLU (vs) handcoded prtf DDS

>>>RLU ...... It promised an SDA look-feel, but it didn't really deliver .....
>>>RLU was purchased on the cheap, I think (sorry, Jon)

>Sadly RLU never promised an SDA look-feel - it was designed, much to my chagrin
>(now there's a $5 word!), to have the look-feel of SEU (don't ask why!).  The
>SDA look was added later after users universally rejected it.
>
>I'd love to be able to claim that it was purchased on the cheap and that we got
>a bad buy, but it's not true - it was hand built right in Toronto.
>Jon Paris - AS/400 AD Market Support - paris@ca.ibm.com


I remember having a beer at CUDS at COMMON with a very distraught developer
a few years back and having him ask me "But why don't they like it John?".

He was explaining the design difficulties (spacing, overprinting, etc)
and saying " I couldn't make it do this or that". 
I said, It's not like SDA, and they won't like it, sorry.  Can't remember 
his name right now.   

Jon, He didn't go to work for M$ and design some of their stuff did he??
Or does it only seem like it?

Get Code/400 with DSU.  You won't be sorry.  It's the best. IMHO

 John Carr CDP
 Certified IBM Specialist  - RPG
 EdgeTech
 804-739-7689
 5921 Acorn Ridge Ct.
 Midlothian Va 23112
 74711.77@compuserve.com



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