Re: (not entirely...) OT: OPINION... chicken entrails, runic stones, and crystal balls... WAS CoBOL moved to OO

From: Howard Brazee (howard_at_brazee.net)
Date: 01/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:29:25 GMT

On 2-Jan-2004, "Peter E.C. Dashwood" <dashwood@enternet.co.nz> wrote:

> > And often more meaningful. Real-time doesn't give the same type of
> > picture as scheduled snapshots.
> >
>
> There is no reason why a real time system CAN'T produce scheduled snapshots.
> The two are NOT mutually exclusive.

I suppose one can press an icon and then wait 20 minutes while the system
calculates the snapshot. That's real-time.

Or one can press an icon to start the report/extract job, and then 20 minutes
later, the snapshot has been saved and anybody can look at it without waiting.
That's batch.