On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 01:14, cr wrote: > On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 23:37, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 05:13:01PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > > > Nah, that was EDIT.COM - before that appeared I used to use the Turbo > > > C editor to edit text files; I think the guys who wrote EDIT.COM did > > > too. > > > > I remember c:\dos\edit.com fondly as well, probably the best text > > editor to ever come out of MS. Still doesn't hold a flame to emacs, > > but hey, it's Microsoft we're talking about here, so what do you expect? > > Well, I discovered Edit when our department got a IBM PC with a dot-matrix > printer. At that time we engineers had to write specifications on a > mainframe terminal in some 'scripting' language, send them off to some queue, > phone up Accounts (who owned the mainframe) and beg them nicely to run some > compiler on it and send it to the Print queue, then phone up Printing and > tell them it was ours. If we were lucky, next day, we'd get the result and > (if we'd made no mistakes in our scripting!) it would be readable. If not... > > Nobody told me about Edit, I found it by accident. But as soon as I saw it > I recognised The Future. Or, Freedom. I printed off one page to prove to > myself that it would work, went to the mainframe terminal, logged in, typed > "Change Password", shut my eyes and typed in random letters, locking myself > out of the detested mainframe forever. :) > > Does anyone wonder why I hate Thin Clients...? ;)
I hate to use such strong words, but to compare the centralized control of resources that existed on *old* mainframes with the centralized control of resources on a thin-client/fat-server and find any but the most basic similarities is verging on delusion. After all, it's no more difficult to have a printer sitting on your desk, or down the hall with a TC/FS network-based system as it is when you have stand-alone or fat-client/thin-server system. And you're still running all the same apps, no matter what. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Causation does NOT equal correlation !!!!!!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]