We've licenced Vista tn3270 and iirc I've asked Tom for permission.... So in our case that's all right....
Bye, Michael Mit freundlichen Grüßen Michael Knigge SET GmbH Rühmkorffstraße 5 30163 Hannover Telefon: +49 511 330 998 23 Fax: +49 511 330 998 65 michael.kni...@set.de www.set.de Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hannover HRB 52778 Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Tobias Baum, Arthur Brack, Hendrik Leder Mit freundlichen Grüßen Michael Knigge SET GmbH Rühmkorffstraße 5 30163 Hannover Telefon: +49 511 330 998 23 Fax: +49 511 330 998 65 michael.kni...@set.de www.set.de Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hannover HRB 52778 Geschäftsführer: Tobias Baum, Arthur Brack, Hendrik Leder -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Im Auftrag von Grant Taylor Gesendet: Freitag, 30. April 2021 18:48 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: AW: And the survey says... On 4/30/21 5:11 AM, Michael Knigge wrote: > I've worked with PCOM, RUMBA, Nexus and Vista tn3270.... And I felt in > love with Vista tn3270.. Why?! You might roll your eyes, but it's the > font. No, I don't roll my eyes at that. I /was/ going to say that's one of the /little/ creature features that make a worthwhile difference. Except I changed my mind part way through typing creature as I realized that the font is one of the things that we will spend hours a day actually interacting with. Many of the other creature features; script ability, screen dump, etc, all impact our day-to-day, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute /use/ of something much less than a font. Or said another way, the font is something that our brain will be processing and translating from a visual representation to something we cognitively understand. So if there is something that can be done to make it easier for our brain to do when it does that hundreds if not thousands of times a day, that's a big win to me. The Microsoft commercial where one IT guy stops another IT guy who is wondering around with dumbfounded look on his face looking at a nickle, and asks what's wrong comes to mind. Then the 2nd IT guy tells the 1st IT guy that they are saving a nickle /per/ /transaction/ and hands the nickle to the 1st IT guy and walks off. Then the 1st IT guy starts wondering around with an equally dumbfounded look on his face while making a comment "we process hundreds of thousands of transactions a day". I say this because even the smallest change; cost reduction, simplification, efficiency gain, in something that happens a LOT ends up having a profound impact. If that happens to be using a font that is easier for our brains to process, then by all means, so be it. > I loved it so much - I've "extracted" the font and use it also with my > SPF/SE editor.... Still love it since over 10 years (I guess).... Nice. I wonder if the font is available somewhere legally / with license elsewhere /or/ if it's /exclusive/ to the Vista tn3270. If it's not available independent of Vista tn3270, then you may need a license of Vista tn3270 to legally use the font in a different terminal emulator or program on the system. So, now I wonder if there is a different terminal emulator that does something else better than Vista tn3270 that could use the font from Vista tn3270 and make a superior hybrid solution. Aside: I know of Vista tn3270, but I have no idea how it's licensed. -- Grant. . . . unix || die ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
