Re: What is an IBM Power Server really?

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Let's look at it from the opposite direction...

The only "server" OS designed to require a local GUI display device that
I'm aware of is Windows Server...but that's a legacy left from it's roots
as a single user OS.

Completely fair point, and very apt. It doesn't make a whole lot of
sense to talk about GUIs in the Mac or Windows PC sense when we're
talking about a system designed as a server.

And to bring this back to the message that started this thread: I
can't imagine any sense in which IBM i *is* a GUI. (Note that OP
didn't even mention whether IBM i *has* a GUI.) I think calling IBM i
a GUI would be confusing and unhelpful. The question presupposes that
the audience has heard of Unix. It would be better to call IBM i a
mainframe-flavored alternative to Unix.

John Y.