{"id":458,"date":"2002-11-05T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-05T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=458"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:43:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:43:43","slug":"the-advantages-of-being-a-dinosaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"The advantages of being a dinosaur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like any other progressive state, Kentucky was providing election results online on election night.<br \/>\nAnd, like any other system that only sees peak load once a year, their <a href=\"http:\/\/cdc.state.ky.us:8180\/kyelectweb\/index.htm\">web server<\/a> wasn&#8217;t up to the demand.<br \/>\nIt handled the load pretty well for the first hour or so after the polls closed, and the interface was fairly well<br \/>\ndesigned. But by about 7:30 PM, response was getting very sluggish.<br \/>\nFortunately, I realized the web interface was just a front end to the CICS-OS\/390 system doing the real work.<br \/>\nBrowser? We don&#8217;t need no stinkin browser!  Just fire up a TN3270 session (doesn&#8217;t every self-respecting computer geek<br \/>\nhave 3270 emulation software installed on his machine?), and plug in the address of the big iron, bypassing the little<br \/>\nweenyass webserver. Presto .. the old <a href=\"http:\/\/jmatt.net\/blogpix\/dishost.jpg\">&#8220;greenscreen&#8221;<\/a> we all know and love. So maybe the interface is a little clumsier.<br \/>\nResponse is terrific. And it still beats the hell out of <a href=\"http:\/\/jmatt.net\/blogpix\/pcard.gif\">punch cards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like any other progressive state, Kentucky was providing election results online on election night. And, like any other system that only sees peak load once a year, their web server wasn&#8217;t up to the demand. It handled the load pretty well for the first hour or so after the polls closed, and the interface was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=458\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The advantages of being a dinosaur<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekstuff","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-7o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}