Re: Weigh in on Fast400 . . .

["James W. Kilgore" <eMail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brad, all,

Since we're all thinking out loud about this....

I've never done this sort of thing, but if the I/O routines necessary to support
a SPECIAL device would interface with the existing EXFMT, READC, etc. opcodes
then a change in the F spec from WORKSTN to SPECIAL would be the ultimate
transition tool.

Since the compiler folks periodically ask what we would like to have added, I'd
vote my whole $100 on something along the lines of a new device code to handle
data messaging in a client/server environment where the client could be anything
that could handle the task.  It wouldn't matter if the client was a VB program,
a Java applet, a sockets program, whatever.

If IBM can't/won't do this, possibly some really clever bunch of people could
come up with a compiler patch so that any program with a WORKSTN device would
use this patch to communicate with a WORKSTN controller emulator.

just a thought...

Brad Jensen wrote:

> The conversation about this on this list has got me thinking also.
> Why not have a tool the replaces the 5250 screen processing with a
> web interface? They are both transaction oriented.
>
<<SNIP>>