RE: X-Windows on the AS400

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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