Hello Gavin,
Am 25.07.2025 um 14:56 schrieb Gavin Inman <midrangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
If you want to push your remaining dedicated base off a platform IBM, eliminate 5250.
Matches my thinking. When I started exploring the system as a retrocomputing hobbyist in 2007 and soon after found it extremely easy to write full screen text UI applications — compared to Libcurses on Linux.
Sadly, TUIs are (outside of nerd niches) generally considered outdated nowadays, and the limitations of the 5250 forms based approach limits possible interactions with the user even further. Everything has to be GUI and clickable, despite the fact that requested information is still text. Mostly.
But then, I'm not a commercial user, and consider myself being part of that nerd niche mentioned above.
:wq! PoC
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