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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:48:00 PST
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- From: Leonard D Woren <LDW@USCMVSA.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Reply to the new year
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- On Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:24:56 CST,
- Larry Holder <##09@UTMARTN.BITNET> said:
- > > The trade press makes it sound as if everyone is abandoning mainframes for u
- > > boxes, networked pc's, and the like.
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- > The trade press is always going to emphasize the new and exciting stuff.
- > They will point out innovations and trends that do need to be looked at.
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- And to some extent these things become a self-fullfilling prophesy.
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- > However, in practicality, mainframes are not dead, nor is their
- > traditional use going to disappear overnight. Using our shop as an
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- Partially true, but see question below.
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- > example, we are beginning to push ahead toward some distributed
- > processing, but there are no forseeable plans to chuck the mainframe
- > applications.
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- Yes, but where are the *new* applications being written?
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- /Leonard
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