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Denis Robitaille Cascades inc. Tel: 819-363-5187 DRobitaille@cascades.com >>> "Roger Pence" <rp@rogerpence.com> 12/02 11:04 am >>> >Wow! That's a pretty strong statement. Are you saying that a multi-tasking, >Windowed interface does not add to your productivity? Prior to windowed >desktops (note, the reference to teh generic concept not Gate's cash cow) >the only way you could do more than one thing with the AS/400 was with >multiple terminals or kludgy old group jobs. I think you are confusing multi tasking and GUI. The idea expressed (at as i understand it) is for a "single" application, a lot of application do not really beneft from a GUI. I appen to agree with that. >The value of GUI is more than simply offering your users checkboxes and >pulldown menus. GUI offers your users an easily switchable context of >applications, launched at their need. Beyond the sexy appeal of GUI, it's >fundamental importance is in letting users control their desktop context. Go >poll the bean counters today using a 5250 emulator and Excel concurrently. >Ask them if they'd like to go back to the days of a PC on desk and a 5250 >dumb terminal on the other. Hardly. It doesn't matter that one of the apps >they're using (perhaps the one they're using most) is a green-screen >wannabe. They are in control and can launch the apps of their choice, and >download data to these apps, as needed. Again, musltitasking does not equal GUI and vice versa. You could have 2 green screen session open and 3 DOS base program opened all at once. You then have multitasking (5 jobs) but i would not call that GUI >As for GUIs not making good heads down data entry devices, that's a >green-screen myth of the highest order. Have you ever used Quicken? It is >hands down the best data entry I've ever used! I do not know Quicken so i cannot comment on this product. But i am a beleaver in the "green-screen myth". The general idea is that data entry is faster when you keep your fingers on the keyboard instead of going to the mouse every time to select from a pull down list. I think this tread may develop in something interesting. PS could you imagine an ATM machine using a GUI! +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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