System slowdown, DOS version of FP

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:03:47PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 03, 2004, Joe Acquisto wrote:
> >>. . . 
> >>Ok, yes, I was extrapolating one layer: what I think he's talking about
> >>is client-server, but I've never seen an implementation of what you'd
> >>call client server that didn't have underneath it what you'd call an
> >>RDBMS -- Oracle, PostGreSQL, Informix, Unify, etc...
> >>
> >
> >If you mean me, no, I was just taking a free shot at MS products.
> >
> >(and, please excuse me if some of my posts have been personal replies, doing a "reply" on this list seems to go to the author, not the list.)
> 
> That behaviour is highly intentional as it minimizes the times
> that replies that are intended to be personal go to hundreds of
> people, often causing embarassment to the sender.  IHNSHO, it
> should require at least a little bit of effort on the part of a
> sender to send messages to a mailing list.

I've recently linked the polemic on that issue from my weblog; link
below.

Cheers,
-- jra
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