Re: mainframe career advice

And whilst (arch) we are all in rather AR mood....

>> In a system evaluation, years ago, I wrote 'Anyone who states 'you can do
>> anything on a mainframe that you can do on a PC' has not pondered why it
>> is that one never sees a flying-toaster screen-saver on a 3278 terminal;
>> each architecture has functions that would be inappropriate to attempt to
>> implement on the other.'

A mainframe can be be (also) :

"a large fast computer that can handle multiple tasks concurrently"

which I think means that my desktop is lexically speaking, a mainframe AND a
PC though one could argue that the concurrency is built into the OS and
perhaps my OS of choice doesn't actually do concurrent processing as much as
time slicing - but the fact is that my machine can more than likely handle
it.

My example therefore was at least as reasonable as the original.

Please replace house with "house with stairs" - I didn't qualify the house
with specific type in the original comment as I believed the context would
have suggested that it be a non-bungalow house with stairs. I considered
saying multi-storey or just non bungalow, but a maisonette is mult-storey
and wouldn't have a stair lift either (in most examples that I have seen it
wouldn't).

Given that you have an unabridged OED - is it preferable that it be
multi-storey or multistory ? The latter seems to indicate an americanization
to me as it is a spelling to which I was unaccustomed prior to this somewhat
bizarre thread.

I was thinking about this (Lord knows why) but I wondered why anyone had
terminals anymore anyway - and if they did, I'm sure the terminal could have
a built in screensaver like my digital box or DVD player to prevent that age
old "why does every screen look like the main menu in this light" problem
associated with the old terminals.

J.


<docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dhinds$pbl$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <1128007814.086722.296790@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Mike <MPBrede@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> In article <ziE_e.109279$4i6.86064@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>> Defaultuser <Defaultuser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >'You can do anything in a bungalow exactly as you can in a house' -
>>> >doesn't
>>> >mean I ponder why I've never seen one with an stair lift.
>>>
>>> According to http://www.m-w.com a bungalow *is* a house, usually.
>>>
>>
>>A bit of UK vs US terminology. In the UK a house has multiple floor
>>levels with stairs (and/or other means of ascending) and a bungalow is
>>a single-floored dwelling place. I think.
>
> According to my copy of the OED (Compact Edition, 1981 USA printing, Vol
> I, Pg 295, reduced page 1178, col iii) it is defined as 'A one-storied
> house (or temporary building, e.g. a summer-house), lightly built, usually
> with a thatched roof.' ... but what do *they* know about UK terminology,
> anyhow?
>
> (Interestingly enough the derivation is from bangla, 'understood to be
> identical with the adj. use of the same form, meaning 'belonging to
> Bengal'.')
>
> DD
>


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