9 Sep
1998
9 Sep
'98
12:35 a.m.
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, William Donzelli wrote:
signals from an A/D box). Mainframes are not
interactive things - they
like to work on huge jobs that require moving tons of information on
disk or tape to more disk or tape, often with little human interaction at
all. Take a look at IBMs terminals (327x) - they are quite smart, sending
out whole chunks of data, preassembled for the mainframe. The mainframe
need not be bothered dealing with escape characters and such to move the
cursor around - it has better things to do. The less keypresses, the
better.
I think you're definitely on to something here. This is the best
distinction I've seen yet to describe a mainframe.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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