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  3. April 2006

Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

Don't ask me. I'm still puzzled by the idea that people would want to clutter up their Windoze/Mac/Linux screen with emulation sessions instead of using a real terminal. Maybe if more users had the common sense to insist on real terminals, 5250 terminal development would have advanced as far as X-terminal development, and things like programmable mouse button support and GUI elements that are doable on 348x terminals would actually have some operating system (not to mention SDA) support.
(Think of it this way: something that comes in a box marked "Roland," "Korg," "Yamaha," or "Casio," and plugs into a wall, and plays through speakers, is AN EMULATOR. Something that has real pipes, blown by real wind, or real strings, either struck by real hammers or plucked by real picks [whether made of quills, leather, or Delrin], and has a nameplate that says "Flentrop," "Steinway," or "John Challis," is THE REAL THING.) 

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