From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro   wrote:   
   >Now imagine trying to run something more properly interactive, like Emacs   
   >(or vi/vim, if you prefer), through such an interface.   
      
   You mean like word processing on PROFS where the editor is basically running   
   on the channel controller?  That is great and extremely zippy over a slow   
   network.  Far better performance with any network latency than trying to   
   send everything over the connection.   
      
   CDC did something like this in a less elegant way with the Full Screen   
   Editor FSE.  The PPU did most of the work but the PPU was tightly coupled   
   to the CPU so even though it offloaded the CPU completely it didn't help   
   any for slow connections.   
      
   But really, this has nothing to do with transaction processing systems,   
   which is the topic of this thread.  Transaction systems need to have enough   
   smarts at the terminal end to generate a transaction and the server needs   
   to have enough to execute it.   
   --scott   
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
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