On Wednesday 11 April 2007 22:54, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 19:49, Sridhar Ayengar
wrote:
Dave McGuire wrote:
Interesting. I'm assuming from this
statement that you haven't
been in many datacenters.
Or used a mainframe.
One particularly twisted individual could run a UNIXy OS on a
mainframe, have a VNC X-windows server running as a process, and use
that to host a KDE/GNOME session.
That kind of person would be me. I've done that kind of twisted
stuff, like running OpenGL Quake on my mainframe, but that's *far*
from normal.
It's also something I might do, just to have done once. :)
Less twisted
individuals may point out that IBM has sold graphical
terminals that are attached to mainframes (such as my 3279-S3G or
older ones that aren't 3270 devices) long before any GUI from the
likes of Microsoft or Apple has been around.
I would point out that many (most?) graphical consoles on mainframes
aren't used to display GUIs. Although, by some stretch of an
imagination, a CAD drawing could, I suppose, be considered a GUI.
I'd argue that any CAD program that has its UI on the Graphical display
is a GUI by definition. :)
Pat
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