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On 17/03/2015 22:36, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:50:57 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards
> <invalid@invalid.invalid> declaimed the following:
>
>> On 2015-03-17, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Of course we could avoid all of these problems if we were to bring back
>>> the mainframe or mini and the dumb terminal.
>>
>> We did, except we made the terminal smarter and prettier and called it
>> a "web browser" and we call the mainframe a "web server".
>
> 	That, or it's a Raspberry PI (or two of them emulating a VAXCluster
> <G>)
>

Have they already achieved with the Raspberry PI something that Unix was 
years behind VAX/VMS on?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence