RE: Weigh in on Fast400 . . .

Scott:

Exactly right. Data queue client/server, sockets client/server, whatever. It 
doesn't even have to be done all at once, do it a program at a time if you want 
to. And it isn't that difficult. Not enough response? Start a couple additional 
server jobs. But as you said, we usually don't!

Why not?

Tom Liotta

On Fri, 09 November 2001, Scott Mildenberger wrote:

>
> Tom,
>
> If the applications are written to separate the display logic from the main
> code and the communication between the two parts is via something like data
> queues then you can have an application using physical terminals where most
> of the processing all occurs in batch.  The interactive workload would be
> minimal.  We have had the capability to build our applications this way for
> a very long time (although we usually don't!).  And an application built
> this way could very easily support another type of interface such as GUI or
> Web with no changes.  Wow, modern looking app's or terminals and either one
> doesn't need a machine with a lot of interactive processing power.  The
> development is more complex but I believe once the framework is in place you
> should be able to develop new app's at the same pace as done today.
>
> If I could just get this accomplished where I work. :)
>
> Scott Mildenberger
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thomas@inorbit.com [mailto:thomas@inorbit.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 9:54 PM
> > To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: Weigh in on Fast400 . . .
> >
> >
> >
> > Of course, if the _actual requirement_ is physical terminals
> > rather than terminal emulators, it's not quite the same question.
> >
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