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In article <danpop.807226875@rscernix>, Dan Pop <Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:

>application doesn't need a GUI in order to be easy to use.  This explains
>why the ASCII terminals haven't been killed yet by the PC's, Mac's,
>workstations and X terminals.  BTW, their worst "enemy" here is the
>X terminal.

Heh, I just started working for a company that uses a "Total Office" kind
of operation for reception and other services. The receptionists have
these green-screen terminals that control the whole phone switching sytem.
They have an interface that looks like something done with curses.

Anyway, I was talking to one of the receptionists, and - referring to the
terminal - she praised the "high techonology".

I was a little amused, since I remembered some *.advocacy Usenet postings
at that point.

>>You can remotely control Macs with Timbuktu.  Yes, it's a third party product, 
>>but it's there if you need it, which most of us don't.
>
>Exactly the point.  When you need it, it's not there.  A piece of 
>software (whether free or 3rd party) which is not installed when you need
>it is useless).

And what if one side has it, but the other doesn't? Haha, I can picture
the conversation:  "You got ZTerm or Microphone?" "Duh, no. What are those?"