29 Jan
2002
29 Jan
'02
5:54 p.m.
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Before all of you cry off-topic, doesn't it seem
odd to anyone we're now
full circle and back to low-power terminals connected to a "mainframe,"
now that corporate America has gotten off its fat client kick?
Some never left. For instance, the cash registers at the local Hastings
'entertainment superstore' have always been dumb terms connected to a
physically large Dell-branded box that lives in the same room as the safe.
Speaking of cash registers: I wish there was a SHL operation that took
mine as an operand.
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com