Re: What is an IBM Power Server really?

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 8:45 AM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I'm not putting down the i. I'm just trying to address the question of
whether it has a GUI.

I think you made a good point about IBM i not having a native GUI. Does
anyone here think that IBM i should run threads that monitor keyboard,
touch, and mouse events, interface with graphic display adapters, and
generate streams that morph into pixels? Wouldn't those types of workloads
interfere with the types of processes that people need to run on servers?

Isn't IBM i better off without a GUI? Isn't a GUI the responsibility of the
devices that attach to the server?

Frank Soltis has long made the point that Windows, and *nix were designed
as single-user platforms, while IBM i and zOS were designed as multi-user
platforms. Isn't a GUI is something that pertains to single-user platforms?

IBM i Navigator has a browser user interface, which unfortunately is so
bloated, cumbersome, slow, and unreliable, that it blemishes the reputation
of IBM i.