From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 13:57:16 +0800
To: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: Why I dislike Java. (was Re: "Scruffies" vs. "Neats")
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"E. ALLEN SMITH" writes:
> From:	IN%"perry@piermont.com"  3-MAY-1996 16:14:04.28
> 
> >Money is not a problem, but space is. There is never any room on a
> >trading floor. Space is at an amazing premium.
> 
> Would switchable monitors, mice, and keyboards be a possible solution
> (with placement of the CPUs in another location), or are your users too
> permanently technically incompetent?

The users can't afford not to have the numbers they are watching not
in front of them, even for brief periods. Its a real problem.

And yes, this isn't a joke. They all eat lunch on the trading floor so
they don't have to leave their desks. They race back and forth to the
bathroom. The environment is tough.

.pm