RE: Linux and V5R2

["Smith, Nelson" <NSmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let me ask a dumb question here.  If Unix/Linux, whatever, is character
based, and also old-as-the-hills, just like RPG & OS400, how is it they can
add a GUI interface and we can't?  I truly believe that's the only
difference that really matters to the end user. 

Anyone in Sales knows that "Sales cures all evils!".  No matter how many
other things in your company might be bad, outdated, or just plain
ridiculous, if you've got sales, nothing else matters.  Likewise, I think a
pretty interface on our systems would make all other issues go away, or at
least recede into the background.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans Boldt [SMTP:boldt@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 8:23 AM
> To:   midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:      Re: Linux and V5R2
> 
> Doug Hart wrote:
> > Linux v1.0 was about 1994, and rough versions of UNIX were around in the
> > 1960's (early 1980's for real).
> > OS/400's birthday was June 28, 1988.
> 
> Technically, OS/400 was largely based on the S/38's CPF operating 
> system, which goes back to about 1978.
> 
> And although the Linux kernel reached version 1.0 around 1994, many 
> of the GNU tools included in Linux distros date back to the mid 1980's.
> 
> Cheers! Hans
> 
> 
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