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On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. wrote: > > >Incidentally, the assertion that Linux is character based is a half-truth. > >Unix is designed to serve many terminals connected to one central system, > >just as OS/400 is. Linux & friends have a graphical environment called > >'X11' which gives it the best of both worlds. > > X is available for the 400. X is available on, and was created for Unix. It > would be a mistake to assume that X was made for Linux. It was adopted. But > X is just the API, it's not the graphics environment of KDE or GNOME, but > the engine that enables those environments. > Sorry, I certainly did not mean to imply that X was made for Linux. In fact I referred to "Linux & friends". In fact, I'm not a Linux user, but rather a BSD user. I refer to "Linux" here because I can be reasonably certain that the members of this list have heard of it. Running X on the 400 doesn't solve any problems, since there are no graphical terminals for the 400 that use X, and there are very few programs that use X on the 400. I suppose I could use PCs running <your favorite OS that runs XFree86 here> to access it, and write the software myself... But then, if I did that, I'd still be screwed because Ops Nav, Ops Console, etc require Windows. Yes, there are X Servers for Windows, but frankly they're not as good. > >OS/400 does not have a graphical environment at all. And it's character > >displays being "screen at a time" based are more efficient for processing > >purposes, but MUCH less flexible than the character at a time model that's > >used in the Unix/PC world. > > And in that vein, Linux does not have a graphical environment either. It's > just if you put a distribution like RedHat on a box, the graphical > environment is installed and activated. But... OS/400 doesn't have such an animal that can be installed and run. You have to use a PC running a different operating system in order to get a graphical environment that communicates with the 400... and then it's a 3rd party item. Ops Nav isn't really a graphical environment. I can't write programs on the AS/400 that pop up in Ops Nav. And I'm sorry, a web server isn't a graphical environment.
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