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Article #624218Re: Computers, anyone?
From: Peter Flass
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 20:41
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 20:41
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Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > 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. > A lot of stuff has been done behind the scenes, such as popup menus if you want them, to provide a more GUI-like environment. -- Pete
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