Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!elroy!cit-vax!ucla-cs!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucdcsm!grunwald From: grunwald@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Single tasking the wave of the futu Message-ID: <3300014@uiucdcsm> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 21:57:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsm.3300014 Posted: Thu Dec 3 21:57:00 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Dec-87 06:00:53 EST References: <3445@hoptoad.uucp> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:hoptoad.uucp:3445:uiucdcsm:3300014:000:705 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