Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

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

Don't ask me. I'm still puzzled by the idea that people 
would want to clutter up their Windoze/Mac/Linux screen 
with emulation sessions instead of using a real terminal. 
Maybe if more users had the common sense to insist on real 
terminals, 5250 terminal development would have advanced 
as far as X-terminal development, and things like 
programmable mouse button support and GUI elements that 
are doable on 348x terminals would actually have some 
operating system (not to mention SDA) support.

(Think of it this way: something that comes in a box 
marked "Roland," "Korg," "Yamaha," or "Casio," and plugs 
into a wall, and plays through speakers, is AN EMULATOR. 
Something that has real pipes, blown by real wind, or real 
strings, either struck by real hammers or plucked by real 
picks [whether made of quills, leather, or Delrin], and 
has a nameplate that says "Flentrop," "Steinway," or "John 
Challis," is THE REAL THING.)

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JHHL