The thought is not wild at all. IBM has servers that use VM and lots of Linux sessions. I am sure setting J servers under such Linux environment will be relatively easy.
2010/3/7 Don Guinn <[email protected]>: > 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 -- 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
