From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro   wrote:   
   >On Sat, 3 May 2025 16:07:59 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >   
   >> That's the cool thing... the way you manage it is by having thousands of   
   >> users, each on their own linux box, sending short transactions to the   
   >> big IBM machine.   
   >   
   >How wonderful. No doubt your user base are accustomed to thinking in terms   
   >of “transactions” rather than point-and-click, are they ...   
      
   The users never see that, any more than they see the underlying sql   
   operations when they are using a directly-attached database.  This is   
   the whole beauty of computers, that you can abstract layers.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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