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- From: richard@crowded-house.den.mmc.com (Richard Armstrong)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Terminal vs. workstations productivity
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.201206.18041@den.mmc.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 20:12:06 GMT
- References: <BEVAN.92Nov3232420@hippo.cs.man.ac.uk> <1992Nov6.075017.22154@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <1653@seqp4.sequoia.com>
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- In article <1653@seqp4.sequoia.com> markr@seqp4.sequoia.com (Mark Roddy) writes:
- >In <1992Nov6.075017.22154@informatik.uni-bremen.de> mfr@Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE. (Michael Froehlich) writes:
- >
- >>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 :-)
-
- Except use a mouse to get from window to window! There are numerous other
- things that X-Terminals can do that ascii terminals cannot; but I do not
- think that this line of conversation is possible if those who have never
- and cannot use X Terminals argue with those who do and can use them. It is
- much like Mac people arguing with IBM people. If any good point is made,
- the opponents will merely discount the point as being not important to them.
- In the end, nobody wins, and dividing lines are stiffened.
-
- >--
- >-Mark Roddy
- >Sequoia Systems, Inc. (508) 480-0800 x1284
- >markr@seqp4.sequoia.com m2c!seqp4!markr
-
-
- --
- My company never said any of this... I didn't either.
- Richard Armstrong, Software Engineer, Martin Marietta
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