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- From: mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu (Matt Kennel)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
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- Date: 11 Apr 1996 18:26:48 GMT
- Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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- Rick DeNatale (denatale@nando.net) wrote:
- :. It also is riding the bubble of the
- : WEB environment, which while useful, looks like it is being overhyped as
- : the universal UI so that companies can use Netscape as the '90s version
- : of a 3270 and get thin clients which they seem to believe will run on late
- : '80s hardware that they don't want to upgrade.
-
- The 3270 of the '90s is a very good idea.
-
- Let a real expert else take care of most of the hard stuff.
-
- There is one utterly fundamental difference between the new and the old,
- though. You used to be connected to one mainframe. You were at the
- service of the mainframe.
-
- Now you choose your connections to whatever you want. The mainframes
- are in service of you.
-
- This reverses the sociology of the system which was the most important
- flaw of the old mainframe model: the user had little control.
-
- : --
- : Rick DeNatale
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