Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

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!
>
> --
> JHHL