Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

["Trevor Perry" <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,

You have the terms GUI and HTML mixed up. HTML is a TEXT markup language and 
not a GRAPHICAL language. Sure, it can align graphic objects, but it 
provides a very poor/thin GUI experience.

Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 1:41 PM
Subject: 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!
> >
> > --
> > JHHL