Patrick Finnegan wrote:
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.
That kind of person would be me. I've done that kind of twisted stuff,
like running OpenGL Quake on my mainframe, but that's *far* from normal.
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.
I would point out that many (most?) graphical consoles on mainframes
aren't used to display GUIs. Although, by some stretch of an
imagination, a CAD drawing could, I suppose, be considered a GUI.
Peace... Sridhar