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- From: mfr@Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE. (Michael Froehlich)
- Subject: Re: Terminal vs. workstations productivity
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.075017.22154@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
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- Organization: University of Bremen, Germany
- References: <BEVAN.92Nov3232420@hippo.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 07:50:17 GMT
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- In article 92Nov3232420@hippo.cs.man.ac.uk, bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes:
- >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
-
- Yes, of course. That's a great solution.
- I know a lot of people tieing their shoe-laces with a pair of pincers :-)
-
- Michael
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