Wirt writes:
> One day, in an epiphany not unlike Saul's conversion on the road to
> Damascus,
> it simply dawned on me that I didn't need to keep beating my head on
> the
> wall. Rather, I could purchase the very inexpensive Windows-based
> version of
> Acrobat and FTP my files from the HP3000 down into a PC. The process
> worked
> so well that I have now become a very enthusiastic advocate of not
> porting
> material onto the HP3000 directly. Rather I now argue that it's best
> to run
> the programs on the platform for which they were designed and control
> them
> from the HP3000. Indeed, doing this insulates and protects the HP3000
> in two
> ways: one is from random software bugs, the second is from
> obsolescence.

And so began the drive to replace web services with Wirt Services...

;-)