RE: Green screen to GUI

> message: 4
> date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:38:08 -0600
> from: "Rick DuVall" <R_C_DuVall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: RE: Green screen to GUI
>
>    I have felt the same for a long time.  It is
> annoying/embarrassing/exasperating to be talking to someone outside the
> company about a project,  explaining that we are running on the
> As/400-iSeries-i5, only to be met with the 'Oh, that's one of those old
> legacy machines isn't it?' or something similar.  There is nothing I can
> say.  I've tried all the possibilities - 'Dear, the AS/400 was a 64 bit
> powerhouse while Windows was only...' and so forth.  Anything I say has no
> effect - for the most part - they don't have the knowledge or experience to
> comprehend.  The only thing that would make a dent in their smug dismissal
> would be a true graphical interface and the tools to make easy use of it.


I think a good response to "Oh, that's one of those old legacy machines isn't 
it?" would be something like "Heavens, no! Where'd you get an odd idea like 
that? Don't you keep up with technology?" That is, the burden of proof needs to 
be shifted to them, and in as chiding a way as possible.

You need defend nothing -- they need to demonstrate something meaningful. Just 
because a system _can_ run an old app doesn't mean that's all it does. Is WinXP 
'legacy' simply because you can run DOS commands?

Tom Liotta