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_at_siconic.com
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