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  3. February 2004

RE: X-Windows on the AS400

I believe this works out of PASE. You use something like VNC to log in to a running process in PASE that has vncserver going, IIRC. Actually very neat. I don't believe it provides an interface to the green screen - but I could be wrong.

At 11:14 PM 2/23/2004 -0600, you wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerome Draper [mailto:jdraper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Subject: X-Windows on the AS400
>
> Why, why, why . . .. didn't IBM put together some kind of
> X-Windows for the AS400 early on to eliminate the whole GUI thing.

They did, since at least V4R4 (although, I'm sure I recall being able to use it before V4R4);

http://www-919.ibm.com/developer/factory/porting/faq_ui.html

It just never had the volume (remember how IBM used to work, where if there was enough volume they would buy it and turn it into a PRPQ then into a fully fledged LP ?), and then, of course, that "J" thing came along with RAWT and whatnot...

--phil



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