At 11:06 PM 9/15/2000 -0400, Tracy Johnson wrote:
>Actually I think you got the themes reversed, Wirt's way is the
>"old" way of doing things.  To re-quote last year's famous quote
>regarding QCTerm:
>
>        "I've seen the future, and it's 1975!"
>
>Joe's tutorial is actually the "new" way of doing things.
>Although highly dependent upon the underlying infrastructure
>of the data center, as you so eloquently say:  Complex,
>fragile, requiring lots of CPU cycles spread across three
>computers,.."

Having started programming computers in 1975, I know very well that QCTerm
is the very old way of doing things, which is why I used quotes around
"old" and "new".  However, the host-terminal architecture is new for the
web, whereas the n-tier client-server model has been around for some time
on the web.