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.
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.
Granted, most mainframes don't have GUIs (though a lot of people seem to
be pushing "web interfaces" for everything which are 1000x worse), but
it's not impossible...
Pat
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