spiffy terminals

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1010 at hudson.acc.virginia.edu> gsh7w at astsun1.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
>I work a lot with the the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. If I
>design a new image programming package for use there which used
>X-windows how many people could use it? About four. If I designed a
>new image programming package that used a tek4010, how many people
>could use it? About one hundred.

We were talking about the justification for purchasing spiffy terminals
rather than el-cheapo terminals.  If you postulate that existing terminals
must be used, that's a different question.  In the context of the original
discussion, those using el-cheapo terminals should get good ones in their
place.  (By the way, I wasn't pushing X terminals.  The ones I mentioned
can emulate Tektronix 4010 series as well as cursor-addressable text ttys.)