Re: Costco still on IBM i?

There is also a publication from IBM Systems Journal in 1982 - The design rationale of the System/38 user interface - a lot of thought did go into it, and the publication, I find it very interesting. IEEE Explore and ACM something or other have it available to members for download, I might have the actual printed pub somewhere.

*Regards*

*Vern Hamberg*

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On 5/27/2025 9:37 AM, Infodorado InfoDorado via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

Frank Soltis it was. Yes of course it was a team, but IBM -the company- is who put him front and center as the architect, not him. And he led the team. And it was his self-confessed choice to avoid doing a GUI. And he did the mea culpa for that when he saw the market develop. You gotta give kudos to somebody that takes the blame, not just the credit.

And his optinion about the 5250 ought to carry extra weight in this discussion, in my opinion. Like in a tech talk with the guy who headed up the group that did RLU. He self-identified, then said. "We're sorry about that".

--Alan

On 05/27/2025 9:08 AM EDT Patrik Schindler<poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

Am 27.05.2025 um 14:57 schrieb Infodorado InfoDorado via MIDRANGE-L<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

How about let us hear from the original architect and creator of the AS/400 operating system:
He shared in a talk he gave once here in Miami. His biggest regret, he said, was doing the 5250 interface, instead of a GUI.
HIS words.

This is easy to say in hindsight.

Also: Who are you referring to? OS/400 is not the offspring of a single person, but a team of decision makers. Although Frank Soltis likes to see himself praised as being the sole godfather of AS/400.

:wq! PoC

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