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From: lincoln@randvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM PC as a terminal (What does this buy you?)
Message-ID: <291@iris.randvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7-Jun-87 03:10:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: iris.291
Posted: Sun Jun  7 03:10:33 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jun-87 04:15:59 EDT
References: <1149@carthage.swatsun.UUCP> <8601@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: lincoln@iris.UUCP (Tom Lincoln)
Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica
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In article <2580@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
>As quoted from <931@maynard.BSW.COM> by campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell):
>+---------------
>| In article <16906@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>| >
>| >Why would you want a PC instead of a terminal?
> I would hope that a good model would use a readable character set
>and use full resolution in text mode.
>
Lots of PCs and clones are being used as terminals to larger systems. I am
interested in this workstation use and what it adds to the interaction with
a program that one does not have at a dumb terminal. Granted that there
are lots of possible configurations, and that some are orders of magnitude
more convenient in the hardware sense than others...

How does this configuration speed up your work?  Do you use PC editors or
word processors in place of a full screen editor on the mainframe?  Do you
bring other PC tools to bear on your work in this way?  Does this make it
easier to use other mainframe programs by suplimenting them with PC based
activities? What are the most important considerations?

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   < ' .        Thanks in advance...  will summarize
   / >                           TOM LINCOLN
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