RE: Green-screen versus browser

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   6. Re: Green-screen versus browser (James H H Lampert)
>
>And just exactly who says you can't have mouse support in 
>the terminal-host paradigm?
>
>3487, 3488, and 3489 terminals, as well as the old Twinax 
>Yestations from Affirmative, ALL have mouse support. 
>Minimal types of mouse support, like turning CUA-compliant 
>function-key legends into clickable mouse buttons (i.e., 
>"Simple Hotspots") is built in, as is cursor-positioning, 
>copy-and-paste (both linear and rectangular), split-screen 
>session-switching and divider-moving, and so forth. And 
>most good emulators have all those features as well (and 
>in one of the few areas where an emulator can outperform a 
>terminal, most of them actually improve on the built-in 
>mouse support). And it's not at all difficult to adjust a 
>5250 application so that it makes the most of the built-in 
>mouse support.


James:

Get serious. With all due respect, how can you possibly write anything in 
support of something as new and untried as any kind of GUI support under 5250? 
Why, that kind of stuff didn't start coming in to OS/400 until V2R2... ummm... 
wait...

V2R2??? Oh. Even before ILE? Sorry. Nevermind.

Tom Liotta

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