Re: Costco still on IBM i?

["Robert Roland" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm guessing you're talking about this -

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800049.801791 - IBM System/38—an IBM usability experience

or https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358722.358730 - System Design for Usability

I'll have to give that a read!

   - Rob

On Tue, May 27, 2025, at 12:49 PM, Vern Hamberg via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
> There is also a publication from IBM Systems Journal in 1982 - The 
> design rationale of the System/38 user interface - a lot of thought did 
> go into it, and the publication, I find it very interesting. IEEE 
> Explore and ACM something or other have it available to members for 
> download, I might have the actual printed pub somewhere.
>
> *Regards*
>
> *Vern Hamberg*
>
> IBM Champion 2025 <cid:part1.QU3HJGEP.o5cSOxqB@centurylink.net> CAAC 
> (COMMON Americas Advisory Council) IBM Influencer 2023
>
> On 5/27/2025 9:37 AM, Infodorado InfoDorado via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
> > Frank Soltis it was. Yes of course it was a team, but IBM -the company- is who put him front and center as the architect, not him. And he led the team. And it was his self-confessed choice to avoid doing a GUI. And he did the mea culpa for that when he saw the market develop. You gotta give kudos to somebody that takes the blame, not just the credit.
> >
> > And his optinion about the 5250 ought to carry extra weight in this discussion, in my opinion. Like in a tech talk with the guy who headed up the group that did RLU. He self-identified, then said. "We're sorry about that".
> >
> > --Alan
> >
> >
> > > On 05/27/2025 9:08 AM EDT Patrik Schindler<poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >   
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Am 27.05.2025 um 14:57 schrieb Infodorado InfoDorado via MIDRANGE-L<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > >
> > > > How about let us hear from the original architect and creator of the AS/400 operating system:
> > > >   He shared in a talk he gave once here in Miami. His biggest regret, he said, was doing the 5250 interface, instead of a GUI.
> > > >   HIS words.
> > > This is easy to say in hindsight.
> > >
> > > Also: Who are you referring to? OS/400 is not the offspring of a single person, but a team of decision makers. Although Frank Soltis likes to see himself praised as being the sole godfather of AS/400.
> > >
> > > :wq! PoC
> > >
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