18 Nov
2019
18 Nov
'19
6:24 p.m.
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 at the terminal
it wasn't capable of any sort of user-programmable computation
that changed pretty quickly with the wide adoption of the IBM PC
I came across a document recently that showed what a mess IBM had on their hands in 1984
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/sna/GC30-3085-3_Distributed_Office_Support_Sys…