Originally Posted by FlyingSlowly

Best summary of the issue I've read to date

Having flown a 'modern' CRJ with overall excellent systems designs from the 80s (yet very similar to the 737 in many regards at thier core architecture), I could barely believe some of the manual distractions and reduced redundancies when learing the 737 by comparison.

But my point is, the EICAS implementation is very do-able on a jet similar in systems to the 737. Though, you might have to automate a few of the system controls in the process. (Electric, pneumatic, etc...) I'm sure many FOs would be so disappointed with less to do...