Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

James,

 Today, a native GUI would have to map to HTML in a browser.

 -mark

At 12/9/06 09:46 AM, you wrote:

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