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From: grunwald@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Single tasking the wave of the futu
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Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 21:57:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  3 21:57:00 1987
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Nf-From: uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu!grunwald    Dec  3 20:57:00 1987


I did a stint with 'big blue' one summer as an intern in their entry systems
division (read: PC-land). I'd been a mainframe mavine before then, and I was
agast at what they were doing.

They seriously expected someone to dish out may $$ for what amounted to a
file transfer program & telphony interface.

Not only that, but to use the thing at all, you had to devote an entire PC
to their thing. How much simpler (? ok, maybe not, but certainly more useful)
it is to have a task monitor the telephone interface & let you do real work
with the rest of your PC.

Single user systems? Maybe. Single task systems, no not today, thanks?

dirk ``i don't own a blue tie anymore'' grunwald
grunwald@m.cs.uiuc.edu