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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Terminal vs. workstations productivity
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.92Nov3232420@hippo.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 3 Nov 92 23:24:20 GMT
- References: <2492@eonwe.gmv.es> <sav.720285056@nanette>
- <1992Oct30.000254.15144@den.mmc.com>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
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- In-reply-to: richard@crowded-house.den.mmc.com's message of 30 Oct 92 00:02:54 GMT
-
- In article <1992Oct30.000254.15144@den.mmc.com> richard@crowded-house.den.mmc.com (Richard Armstrong) writes:
- You should have been sitting here with me over the past two days trying to
- find a subtle bug in a C program on a Unix box telnetted across a network
- from a PC. I would have killed for an X-Terminal so that I could pull up
- xdb, or some other X-based debugger. I would have been MUCH more productive
- in this situation alone. Being able to cut and paste code with a mouse in
- vi could have saved me hundreds of hours in productivity during this past
- year. X-Terminals DO save time and increase productivity.
-
- Maybe, but I don't see anything in the above that _required_ a
- X-Terminal, all you seem to need is the ability to have two "windows"
- visible on the screen. Granted there isn't much software that lets
- you do this, but you could always use Emacs :-)
-
- bevan
-