[ale] "real-time" (was Linux job)

[Kenneth W Cochran]

>From: Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:37:48 -0500
>Subject: Re: [ale] "real-time" (was Linux job)
>
>On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 09:23 -0500, Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
>> kinda "faked it" with the likes
>> of TSO :).
>
>Yep and CICS reminds me so much of how a web form works.  the 3270
>terminal was intelligent enough to display a page and grab input then
             ^ "barely" :-p
>the user would hit a  "Submit" button.  Not good enough so real-time
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  inDEEEED...
And people nowadays think console/terminal i/o is complicated...
Muahaaaahahahaha!... <oldfart> Kids these days </oldfart> :-P

>systems were developed.

A-Hah, exactly!  Back at a previous job (mid/late-ish 90s)
one of the "old mainframe guys" (/me raises hand too :) during
a meeting-break mentioned to me that when he saw "this new web
thing" (a la forms/submit/put) it was like "hey, this is just
like CICS..."  :-D

-kc