That is actually my biggest regret for this box, not beating them (IBM) up
enough to get them to put a GUI on it. I pushed this very hard, but from the
outside you can only do so much; you really do need someone inside with vision
to champion something like that.
Ironic that today, "they're" building GUIs left and right for Linux and throwing
out the old ones for new ones, and yet, nobody seems to mind.
So why doesn't IBM do that now? Build a "native" i5 GUI, one based on... HTML or
whatever and provide the architecture to supplant it in 5 or 10 years as
technology changes.
Export Ventures did it 10 years ago, but these were the engineers behind the
5250 data stream in the 1970s, so they sort of had an few advantages; they knew
the box and being retired, could just make it happen.
-Bob Cozzi
www.i5PodCast.com
Ask your manager to watch i5 TV
-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [
mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Cassidy, Alan
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:58 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Max length of a VARYING field
Then there's Frank Soltis who said once, at a local users' group presentation,
IIRC, that one of his biggest regrets about our system is deciding against doing
native graphic displays, because he figured there wouldn't be much demand for
that...
--Alan
-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Bob Cozzi
Not a direct quote, but...
"640k is more than anyone will ever need" - Bill Gates.
What about when instead of a photo of Joe Pluto on the FBI's most unwanted list,
we decide to store high-definition video and need to blast that out to the
display? <tic>
-Bob Cozzi
www.i5PodCast.com
Ask your manager to watch i5 TV
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