Maybe J could be put onto IBM MVS and VM with the client side on PCs where the character set is ASCII. Have some big iron for a server. Just a wild thought.
2010/3/7 Björn Helgason <[email protected]> > A pint of humour is always nice. > > There are all kinds of new stuff we need to define and work with. > > Who and where is the server and who and where is the client. > > Set up a web of interacting sessions will be fun. > > It is actually strange that J is just now getting into the browser world. > > I was on an IBM seminar and they are seriously going in for supporting > web, VM and Linux. > > I started out using VM and APL close to 40 years ago. > Since then IBM has more or less used VM and APL internally but tried > to get the customers to use some of their other products. > > It is interesting to see them flog VM and Linux as their best stuff now. > Only APL2 missing from the equation at the moment. > > There will probably come a time they will. > > I am sure getting J more out on the web is going to benefit us all. > > 2010/3/7 Alex Gian <[email protected]>: > > Absolutely! > > I was just trying to inject a hint of humour... > > > > I am sure there are very good ways to handle thousands of concurrent > > sessions. Something to look forward to. > > > > On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 16:28 +0000, Björn Helgason wrote: > >> The step from one, two, three to many users can be complicated. > >> > >> Just having one or something like 10 is a very good start. > >> > >> 2010/3/7 Alex Gian <[email protected]>: > >> > Yes, I am under the impression that one port is dedicated per user, > >> > though I'm not quite sure what will happen when there are over, say, > >> > 32000 users..... > >> > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > -- > Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur > Fornustekkum II > 781 Hornafirði > Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , > t-póst: [email protected] > gsm: +3546985532 > sími: +3544781286 > http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming > > > Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans > > góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum > /|_ .-----------------------------------. > ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | > ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | > / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | > ( -. | `-----------------------------------' > | ) | (\_ _/) > (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ > `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
