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- From: dgr@RODIN (Daniel Robinson)
- Subject: Re: Implications for IBM
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.170908.4854@NOC.Vitalink.COM>
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:09:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.235422.7530@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com> myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com writes:
- +In article <1992Dec16.173515.17042@NOC.Vitalink.COM>, dgr@RODIN (Daniel Robinson) writes:
- +>Of course there will be multi-tasking on the desktop;
- +
- + Not according to 60 million DOS users. Most of them have no background
- +tasks to perform, and satisfied with task switching at best.
- ^^^^^^^^^
-
- Not according to user interface designers. In my experience, when I explain
- to a DOS user how UNIX works, and how workstations work, they express a strong
- desire to have the same thing on their machines.
-
- +>One should not infer a file system on the desktop.
- + Explain this, teach me something. You have some ideas here which are
- +smarter than my thinking on the subject.
-
- The SNA network has an explicit hierarchy. The user generated events are
- processed by a series of communications processors until a definite request
- is presented to the mainframe in a very tightly controlled format.
- This paradigm works for a desktop window server running X.12 (or any
- suitable followon to X.11) which does presentation services for shared
- applications running on tightly coupled client machines.
-
- We have desktop filesystems only because PC machines offered WYSIWYG
- applications (very desireable) and the large computer vendors didn't
- understand that at the time. Most users in the business arena would rather not
- be bothered by maintaining a disk based operating system on the desktop.
- What users really want are not computers, but rather applications that work easily.
-
- +>The paradigm of peer machines on desktops being served by slaves
- +>in the back room unnecessarily burdens the network...
- +
- + Well, the posters on this group tell me that 100 Mbps up to 1 Gbps
- +will be cheaper than a pair of Sharks (local hockey club) tickets.
-
- When this happens, DOS will be used only in certain Third World
- countries... {:>)
-
- Dan Robinson
-