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Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence


On 07/05/2006, at 6:57 AM, Larry Bolhuis wrote:


Alrighty then! I propose that henceforth and forevermore the interface
formerly known as 'Green Screen' shall be known as the Non Programmable
Terminal User Interface or NPTUI. (Pronouncd "en-patooey").  This way
the thing doesn't have the stigma of oldness, greenness, or forced to be 
24 rows of 80 characters and gets to take it's place amount the other
forms of User Interfaces.
I will however only accept the replacement of the 'green screen' name if all who read here promise to no longer use such equally antiquated terms 
as AS/400,  and iSeries and promise only to use the names System i and
System i family.

Deal, or no Deal?
Small problem of confusion with the already existing IBM acronym ENPTUI (pronounced just like your proposal). Search Google for ENPTUI. From which we can extrapolate that if Enhanced Non-Programmable Terminal User Interface exists then a non-enhanced interface must also exist which would be described by removing the "E" from the acronym giving NPTUI. Thus: 
        - NPTUI = n-patooey (short N sound)
        - ENPTUI = en-patooey (long N sound)
which while acceptable in print is probably too subtle a sound distinction for many English speakers. 

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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