Exactly! I've been around long enough to experience that series of events from top to bottom. That's the weird thing about this business. There's always a new

Exactly! I've been around long enough to experience that series of events from top to bottom. That's the weird thing about this business. There's always a new generation saying 'this is dumb, we should do it differently' and things bounce back and forth. As you say, smart terminals are one reason why an old mainframe could support so many users with so few resources - all that display and input processing offloaded in a very distributed fashion. Web and Electron apps make me weep for what was.