Re: Costco still on IBM i?

[Raul Alberto Jager Weiler <raul.jager@xxxxxxxxx>]

Vrey well says

El vie, 16 de may de 2025, 18:07, Jack Woehr via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> IMHO the takeaway here is that the greenscreen interface, within its
> now-too-obvious limits, hewed tightly to certain usability factors mandated
> from top down.
> IBM did studies in the early 1970's on the decline in operator
> productivity measured against response time, etc.
> The problem of crappy web interfaces that supplant tight greenscreen code
> is not an intrinsic validation of greenscreen vs. web interface.
> The problem is that some web programmers are more interested in web
> programming, web toolkits, and visual features unrelated to enterprise
> productivity than in delivering a comfortable workspace in a browser to
> people who work intensively in one application day after day.
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> I think this is an excellent example of how durable and "in the present"
> the IBM i is.  A "green screen" is not necessarily equivalent to "stuck
> in the past".  I use SSH/puTTy "black screen" aka "ugly terminal" every
> day on the most bleeding edge platforms out there.  Choose the best tool
> for the best job....
>
> Pete Helgren
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