On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 10:57:00 -0500, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > (Ed Jaffe) writes: >> I've often wondered what the state of the mainframe would be today if >> IBM had actually done a halfway decent job developing ISPF >> Client/Server, mSys for Setup, and other similar GUI-based initiatives >> from the 1990s. > And, please, support a portable GUI protocol such as X11 (perhaps VNC; perhaps HTTP -- is that what HoD does?) Don't require an idiosyncratic agent for every desktop OS.
>re: >http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#39 Resistance to Java > >a primary communication group effort fighting off distributed computing >and client/server was SAA ... >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Systems_Application_Architecture > Ah! Is that what the misbegotten thing was for? To demonstrate the nonviability of distributed computing by exhibiting a nonviable distributed computing product? >part of the issue was 3tier was all tcp/ip (and not SNA). > >at the same time SAA was kicked off, the communication group was also >out distributing a lot of misinformation inside the corporation about >how SNA could be used for the the NSFNET backbone (precursor to modern >internet). old NSFNET backbone email >http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet >and past posts >http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet > Why did that fail? Just too little, too late? NIH? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
