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

There was definitely a limitation per controller. I don't remember much
about it, but I like the open source idea. Might be fun to work with it
again, especially for the OV folks.

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 07:28:44 -0700, "Keith Carpenter" <CarpCon@xxxxxxx>
said:
> 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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