Re: V5R2 Console Recommendations

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have always preferred dumb 5250 twinax devices as consoles because
> when the chips are down, they work. However, they do take a lot of
> space, are no longer sold by IBM, are not the "modern" way of doing
> things, etc, etc, etc.

Has IBM Rochester been taking doofus lessons from Microsloth? Abandoning a
proven, cheap, reliable technology (i.e., Twinax terminals, which are NOT
"dumb," at least not in the sense that an old Lear ADM-3 "glass TTY" is
dumb) just because it isn't "slick," while continuing to shove (with
ever-increasing force) an expensive, congenitally-obsolete bit of
bloatware (i.e., Client Access, and everything that depends specifically
on it) down people's throats?

For crying out loud, I DESIGNED an emulator, and I KNOW that there's never
been one that has the aesthetics, the 132-column-readability, and the
reliability of a 3487-HC.

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JHHL