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  3. August 2004

Re: WordPerfect (was: IBM overhauls iSeries for the long haul)

Can you recall anything about the interface that required special 5250
features ?

I had heard that WP/400 utilized it's own workstation controller code.  The
downside was a higher overhead which effectively limited the number of WP
users per controller.



Michael wrote:
> That last one would be whippy...never make it past the marketing mavens.
>
> I worked for a data comm company at the time that had a magic box to go
> between AS/400, DEC VAX, mainframes, UNIX...somehow we thought having
> WordPerfect on a 400 made sense. I implemented and it made it work...it
> was pretty cool actually.

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