RE: Command line (was: OT - Shutting down an RS/6000 ?)

["jt" <jt@xxxxxx>]

| [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of McCallion, Martin


| > Right!!  And I'd like to meet the mental giant in usability
| > who took the S/38
| > convention of 1=Display, 9=Delete (far apart) and turned them
| > into 4=Delete,
| > 5=Display (right stinkin' next to each other)!  Idiot!
|
| Not to mention F4 for prompt being right next to F3 for exit.

Well, folks...  My recollection is THAT right THERE is the supposed
"advantage" of cross-platform solutions.

IBM SAA (Systems Application Architecture) conventions came as a compromise
of S/38 conventions for the sake of getting-along with other platforms.

SOMEtimes it works out well...  Other times.. NOT so well......... (As in
these cases.)-;