Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Liotta <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have no idea what this means. How do you 'integrate 
> the GUI' on any large multi-user system?
>
> I mean, do you add a GPU each time you add a user? Or 
> buy a new monitor/keyboard/mouse to plug into a kind of
> "brick" with an Ethernet port leading back to the System
> i, like a net-station? Or the 5292 graphics workstation?
. . .

Given the directions terminal evolution was going when IBM 
stopped 5250 data stream development at the 3489, I would 
say that at least the rudimentary building blocks of a 
native GUI were already there: IBM simply never bothered 
to provide the tools for developers to access the power 
hiding in the InfoWindow II series terminals.

I stand by my previous comment that if they'd simply 
provided adequate tools to develop for the InfoWindow II, 
and had continued to develop the interface, we'd HAVE the 
bloody native GUI!

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JHHL