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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: spiffy terminals
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Date: 17 Jan 89 15:27:47 GMT
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In article <4684@xenna.Encore.COM> bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>>I work a lot with the the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. If I
>>design a new image programming package for use there which used
>>X-windows how many people could use it? About four. If I designed a
>>new image programming package that used a tek4010, how many people
>>could use it? About one hundred. If astronomers around the world were
>>to use it and it needed X windows, how many could use it? A few
>>hundred? If it needed a 4010 emulator? A few tens of thousands. 
>
>Anyhow, yes, we're on the cusp of another change...like other changes
>it will be too expensive/unwieldy to support two or more diverse and
>incompatible software environments and the old environment will lose.

Why compete?  Compromise.  I'm using X10.4 and the terminal windows can
be toggled into tek4014-emulation mode.  A little 'graph', a little 'plot',
and my data is everyone's data.

>Astronomy? Hm, I'm an aries...

I'm a Camelopardis.

				--Blair
				  "...with Castrovalva rising..."