24 Jun
2016
24 Jun
'16
3:24 p.m.
Heh! Especially if an upper case only terminal
I can just imagine the cry arising from the little whiners!
QUIT SHOUTING QUIT SHOUTING!
(as they stamp their feet and rent their clothing....)
In a message dated 6/24/2016 7:50:46 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
emu at e-bbes.com writes:
On 2016-06-24 08:23, Swift Griggs wrote:
However, I think most folks these days would faint if
they were forced to
work on a terminal.
Just don't tell them, that they do ;-)
If you really think about it, the terminals just got faster and
got more colors. (and you call them smartphone, thin clinet, tablet, win
PC, ...)
Otherwise:
a.) most data is somewhere in the cloud (before it was called mainframe)
b.) a lot of applications are running in the cloud (before, mainframe)
c.) you connect now via wireless internet (before: modem)
d.) ...
So, just Emperor's new clothes ;-)