*nix on "classic" systems

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Wednesday 11 April 2007 19:49, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Dave McGuire wrote:
> >   Interesting.  I'm assuming from this statement that you haven't
> > been in many datacenters.
>
> Or used a mainframe.

One particularly twisted individual could run a UNIXy OS on a mainframe, 
have a VNC X-windows server running as a process, and use that to host a 
KDE/GNOME session.

Less twisted individuals may point out that IBM has sold graphical 
terminals that are attached to mainframes (such as my 3279-S3G or older 
ones that aren't 3270 devices) long before any GUI from the likes of 
Microsoft or Apple has been around.

Granted, most mainframes don't have GUIs (though a lot of people seem to 
be pushing "web interfaces" for everything which are 1000x worse), but 
it's not impossible...

Pat
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