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- From: markr@seqp4.sequoia.com (Mark Roddy)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Terminal vs. workstations productivity
- Message-ID: <1653@seqp4.sequoia.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 17:16:12 GMT
- References: <BEVAN.92Nov3232420@hippo.cs.man.ac.uk> <1992Nov6.075017.22154@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
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- In <1992Nov6.075017.22154@informatik.uni-bremen.de> mfr@Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE. (Michael Froehlich) writes:
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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 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 :-)
-
- On the serious side, the effect that I noticed when we converted engineering
- from ascii terminals to X terminals was an increase in the amount of source
- code that could be worked on at one time. Where 24 lines is the most you can
- view at one time on a typical ascii terminal, 60 or more lines are visible
- on an X display.
-
- There is nothing inherent in an Xterminal that a 70x180 ascii terminal
- and a windowing editor can't do :-)
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- -Mark Roddy
- Sequoia Systems, Inc. (508) 480-0800 x1284
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