Bernie wrote:
>
> I still see things from the users point of view. To a
> user a program that has it's input/output someplace is
> running there.
Yeah, lots of lusers think the screen is the computer's
brain.
> According to your defintion
It's not _my_ definition, it's a fact. I run Netscape
on an ordinary CLI Linux machine. The machine has no
capability to display X, and yet it happily runs Netscape.
The Netscape cache is on that machine, the Netscape mail
files are on that machine and Netscape connects to
the internet via a modem on that machine. I think
you will agree that Linux (not X) is running Netscape.
The display for Netscape goes to a VDU; the user input
for Netscape comes from a mouse and a keyboard. The
VDU, mouse and keyboard just happen to be on a different
computer, connected by TCP/IP (perhaps on the other side
of the world). It's like telnet: the processing is
happening on the server, not on the computer with the
display and keyboard.
Cheers,
Steven
____________________________________________________
Linux for old PCs: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi
