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Article #624217Re: Computers, anyone?
From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 12:21
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 12:21
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On 27 Jun 2018 11:49:27 GMT Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > On 2018-06-27, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > > On 27 Jun 2018 10:04:38 GMT > > Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > > > >> On 2018-06-27, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > > > >> > It would be a very sad thing if things in the computing world > >> > weren't much much better than they were thirty years ago given the > >> > way the underlying technology has been improving. > >> > >> There's much that hasn't changed, though. It just got faster. > > > > Sure but faster like the difference between a bicycle and a > > scramjet. > > Sure, but when I peered over the shoulders of my colleagues across the > aisle, yes, they were running tcp3270 sessions on PCs instead of gigantic > 3270 monitors, but ISPF/TSO looked *exactly* the same as it did 43 years > ago when I saw it for the first time. I'd like to hope it's a case of "if it ain't broke don't fix it", but it's probably inertia. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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