From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1ce307c10055549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-13 13:55:11 PST Message-ID: <3DFA5688.4090704@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada References: <3DF1615C.7AAAC86E@adaworks.com> <3DF1B042.6603DDDE@easystreet.com> <3DF2A483.EC512CDF@adaworks.com> <8db3d6c8.0212091445.12594821@posting.google.com> <3DF628C4.7090607@cogeco.ca> <3DF6653D.3030603@cogeco.ca> <8db3d6c8.0212101850.51506572@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:52:08 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1039816330 198.96.47.195 (Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:52:10 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:52:10 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31803 Date: 2002-12-13T16:52:08-05:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <3DFA1BB8.1050303@cogeco.ca>, "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" writes: > >>I am very aware that text "fails to impress" people these days, but when >>you own the company, you don't necessarily care that those under you >>are stuck using cheap dumb terminals (especially if clients never get >>tours for impressions). There are still a large number of warehouse >>(and similar) situations, where they are quite content to use dumb >>terminals. They're cheap, never need software upgrades, don't get >>viruses, can't pass viruses onto the LAN etc. They also don't need >>Microsoft licenses/extortion to keep them going. > > They also don't run Solitare or Mine Sweeper. Well, Mine Sweeper is close to the reliability experience that Windows software gives you anyway -- so how can you tell the difference ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg