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On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM wrote: > > And the practical application for this would be?????????? 1) Lets say you're writing a communications program that talks to some useful device over a serial port. The device isn't as fast as the AS/400 and doesn't support flow control. a) if data is sent to the device at full speed, it loses characters here and there. b) if data is sent with a 1 second delay, it takes forever. 2) Situation #1 is something I've run across several times. However, I can imagine dozens of very similar scenarios to #1 involving other non-serial communications equipment, as well. 3) Any sort of animation... lets say you want to draw a man and have him walk around the screen. (even if its just a text "drawing") at full AS/400 speeds, you won't even see the guy move. At 1-second delay, it'll be REALLY slow and clunky. 4) Similar to #4 would be any type of computer game, audio application, video application. Even if the 400 is only the server and there's a PC front end, situations are feasable where these delays would be practical. 5) How about a web server that deliberately slows down its response, to prevent a single user from being able to consume the company's entire bandwidth? Surely you couldn't do this effecively with a full 1 second delay! Sure, you don't need it to write accounting software. Do you really want the AS/400 to be limited to only be able to run accounting software?! The posters question was completely valid! +--- | 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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