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Post #46,447
by mmoffitt
7/22/02 8:45:05 PM
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New 80x25 char based? :-)
I don't really know anything about PICK. I worked at a place for about 4 years that was running a PICK emulator (uniVerse?) on HP-UX. It was an HMO that did their claims processing on it and the app was written in PICK BASIC (at least that's what I thought it was called). I worked on the DSS stuff (which were extracts of the PICK files into Sql Server) so I didn't play much with the emulator too much. Didn't really seem that bad, I occasionally had to do some command line scripting and I did set up a few tables/scripts, even some applets, but was by no means an expert.

Years ago when Windows 3.10 came out and I wrote my first database application with the Win16 SDK I thought, this GUI crap will never catch on for head-down data entry. Shows how much foresight I had, doesn't it?
Post #46,525
by boxley
7/23/02 1:34:38 PM
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New 1024X768 :)
Just because it is basic doesnt mean they havnt got any rad tools for the front end. Me I have never understood why an AP system needs gui's anyway.
thanx,
bill
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     Outraged observer from afar - (dmarker2) - (41) - July 9, 2002, 10:54:43 AM EDT
         Win95 comments - (wharris2) - July 9, 2002, 11:17:56 AM EDT
         Hmmm.. - (bepatient) - July 9, 2002, 11:23:08 AM EDT
         Everyone else is doing it, so it's not so bad? - (marlowe) - July 9, 2002, 12:08:49 PM EDT
         Re: Outraged observer from afar - (kmself) - July 9, 2002, 12:58:19 PM EDT
         Death from a thousand cuts - (drewk) - July 9, 2002, 01:53:54 PM EDT
         Simple and straight forward - (Andrew Grygus) - (10) - July 9, 2002, 04:22:42 PM EDT
             Re: Simple and straight forward - (dmarker2) - (9) - July 10, 2002, 02:19:33 AM EDT
                 Perception vs. reality - (drewk) - July 10, 2002, 09:16:42 AM EDT
                 Retiree funds . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (3) - July 10, 2002, 09:25:01 AM EDT
                     Strong disagreement on your leading point - (ben_tilly) - (2) - July 10, 2002, 07:14:51 PM EDT
                         Balanced depending on age - (wharris2) - (1) - July 14, 2002, 06:56:39 AM EDT
                             Exactly right - (ben_tilly) - July 14, 2002, 11:55:32 AM EDT
                 Maybe, maybe not - (wharris2) - (3) - July 10, 2002, 02:19:49 PM EDT
                     Book Roasting - (Andrew Grygus) - July 10, 2002, 03:18:45 PM EDT
                     Re: Interesting - that point discussed on Aust TV last night - (dmarker2) - (1) - July 14, 2002, 06:54:42 PM EDT
                         Of course the system is flawed. - (static) - July 14, 2002, 11:08:34 PM EDT
         M$ has been the *Model* for the growth in rapacity. - (Ashton) - (2) - July 9, 2002, 06:36:05 PM EDT
             Speaking of Ed Curry - (ben_tilly) - (1) - July 9, 2002, 07:57:13 PM EDT
                 Speaking of Ed Curry...again - (folkert) - July 9, 2002, 11:06:53 PM EDT
         I will take some flame. - (mmoffitt) - (21) - July 17, 2002, 08:07:52 PM EDT
             Oh yea? - (boxley) - (4) - July 18, 2002, 11:56:32 AM EDT
                 Yeah. - (mmoffitt) - (3) - July 19, 2002, 04:43:44 PM EDT
                     same way anyone else does X:Y co-ordinates -NT - (boxley) - (2) - July 19, 2002, 06:50:40 PM EDT
                         80x25 char based? :-) - (mmoffitt) - (1) - July 22, 2002, 08:45:05 PM EDT
                             1024X768 :) - (boxley) - July 23, 2002, 01:34:38 PM EDT
             Hello, Toast. - (CRConrad) - (15) - July 18, 2002, 03:24:27 PM EDT
                 Amen, brother... - (jb4) - (6) - July 19, 2002, 09:57:37 AM EDT
                     "Kylix". Here's a linky-thingy: - (CRConrad) - (5) - July 19, 2002, 03:08:24 PM EDT
                         Hey all, retry that link - Kylix 3 is out! (OP *and* C++!) - (CRConrad) - (4) - July 24, 2002, 02:02:43 AM EDT
                             I'll pass for now - (orion) - (2) - July 24, 2002, 06:13:55 AM EDT
                                 Double hmmmm - (orion) - (1) - July 24, 2002, 06:24:10 AM EDT
                                     Dunno, but at a guess, the same thing as with v. 2: - (CRConrad) - July 24, 2002, 09:28:07 AM EDT
                             Hoo--fscking--RAAAAYY!!!! - (jb4) - July 24, 2002, 12:05:18 PM EDT
                 I bought Kylix. - (mmoffitt) - (2) - July 19, 2002, 04:50:32 PM EDT
                     "De gustibus non est disputandum" - (CRConrad) - (1) - July 19, 2002, 06:57:50 PM EDT
                         Thanks for the links. - (mmoffitt) - July 22, 2002, 08:39:12 PM EDT
                 Re: Hello, Toast. - (jake123) - (4) - July 25, 2002, 12:42:43 PM EDT
                     Yeah, maybe... But does rexx have a zero-effort GUI builder? -NT - (CRConrad) - (3) - July 26, 2002, 02:07:27 AM EDT
                         It used to, anyway - (imric) - (2) - July 26, 2002, 08:30:44 AM EDT
                             GpfRexx too. Rather unfortunate name, that. :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - July 26, 2002, 12:00:04 PM EDT
                                 Efforts are underfoot to get Sybase to open source vx-rexx - (jake123) - July 30, 2002, 10:38:20 PM EDT

I'll even go so far as to concede that today's postliterate teenagers are already sufficiently impaired by pop culture that anything that serves to make them even more scatterbrained is rather in the way of gilding the lily, and should not be encouraged.
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