On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 19:24, Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
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> On 11/18/19 11:10 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
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> > For example, I'm not sure anyone would call VMS an open system, yet
> > clearly it's distributed (VAXcluster).
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> What is "open" in this context? Is it open source? Is it open
>
On 11/18/19 11:24 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
not really, all it meant was there was some intelligence at the terminal
it wasn't capable of any sort of user-programmable computation
Okay.
Sounds like distributed is just a term collision then. Thank you for
the clarification.
that
On 11/18/19 10:04 AM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> Does the "Distributed" in "Distributed Function Terminal" refer to / mean the
> same thing as the "Distributed" in
> "Distributed Systems", which are also known as "Open Systems"?
not really, all it meant was there was some intelligence
On 11/18/19 11:10 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
Open systems may be distributed, distributed systems may be open, but
they are not synonyms.
Okay. Fair enough.
I don't think the people using "Open Systems" as in Mainframe vs Open
Systems vs Wintel were differentiating between "open" vs
An interesting article but he never mentioned cost. Using TV available
components cut cost.
Dwight
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On 11/18/19 10:37 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
odd message.. no body..
*facepalm*
Operator error. - Multiple messages trying to start a new thread
instead of polluting another thread.
Let's try this again.
On 11/18/19 9:47 AM, Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote:
I am no expert on the CUT
odd message.. no body..
first generation displays were very dumb, later generations were intelligent
and could parse the data stream
allowing the creation of multiple virtual displays along with graphics. these
are the ones with a 25th status
row
Ken just wrote a blog post about this trying to
On 11/18/19 9:47 AM, Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote:
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Grant. . . .
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