11 Oct
2011
11 Oct
'11
3:05 p.m.
On 10/11/2011 11:18 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/11/2011 09:02 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
If you want real Neanderthal views, I don't think that the X / gui
interface is useful. Real heads down data entry still doesn't work as
fast on anything PC unless it is emulating a good old fashioned terminal.
we had people who could do data entry at full keying speed on our
systems with a Microdata Reality system running 32 terminal. Mind you
this was on a system with an 8 bit microprogrammed data base system,
virtual memory, and interpreted Basic as the system applications
implementation language.
That said, I had several of my keyers up to recently who have never seen
a system which didn't cause more pauses or keying errors than they had
on the keying system.
I don't mind this, but have to say that there are some applications
where the old way got it right, and none of the replacements could fully
come up to the original system.
web based access over direct session access of any sort will have
problems it cannot solve as well, etc.
Now we have web browsers where the heavy lifting
is done remotely and
pushed to a thin client (Opera Mini, Amazon Silk), and work is also
being done on streaming video for compute-heavy game graphics to devices
which are too small to render it realtime themselves. That could end up
being a popular model, even if it sounds odd at first, being such a
reversal of the "buy the biggest PC and graphics card you can" model.
None of the long haul uses X11... Sorry Dave.
No apologies necesary, the real data processing world is just lucky
that you don't know a whole lot about this. ;) Web browsers aren't
going to replace windowing systems anytime soon, sparky. Sorry.
Videogames and cell phones aren't the entire future of computing.
-Dave