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From: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Subject: Re: POSIX bashing (readline bashing)
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.195911.19664@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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Date: 4 Apr 91 00:59:11 GMT
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cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
| My point was that the good 'ol 9600 bps terminals & large time-sharing
| systems are likely to pass away soon, except in heavy-duty transaction
| processing environments.  Networking technology (in my opinion) has
| become simple, reliable, and effective enough that a mainframe is
| rarely the most cost-effective option when purchasing a new system.

 You might be surprised by what trends are starting to manifest. 9600
baud terminals do indeed seem to be on the way out, but their preferred
replacement (at least around here) is often a bigger, heftier server
and a bunch of X terminals. Workstations tend to be saved for
'autonomous' people, for those with special needs (such as playing
around with new software before installing it on the production
server), or people who need high-bandwidth graphics.

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