From: mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) Subject: Re: X terminals: Suggestion for projects like SLS, MCC, etc. Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 12:29:04 GMT
hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>In article <1993Jun13.161425.375@taylor.uucp> mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) writes:
>>hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>>
>>>In article <1993Jun11.123208.1166@taylor.uucp> mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) writes:
>>>>ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
>>>>
>>You are confussed. The server is running on the X terminal. Your statement
>>makes no sense. If you are refering to the host: why would that go down.?
>>Or properly managed host is up 24 hours a day 265 days a year. It is down
>>for maintenance about 10 minutes a month. It has gone down unexpectly
>>three times in five years.
>Well, I use a networking service, netcom, and I can tell you it has gone
>down quite a few times and it is being managed by a professional staff.
That is unfortunate. I place a great deal of empasis on quality. All cable
is best- connectors are gold plated, all cable is run in steel conduit, etc...
It really does make a difference.
>>
>>>With a PC you have the option of running multiple OS's and at least
>>>with 386bsd you have the option to run the PC diskless.
>>
>>I, and my users, have no desire or need to run multiple OS on a local machine.
>>Besides- what makes you think I can't run multiple OS's on the host? I can.
>Just because you don't have a need to run multiple OS does not mean that others
>will not. Tell me what is your performance of lets say windows 3.1 on your
>host computer? And, is it comparatively to the native windows 3.1 bug free?
True, it is not the best solution for those wanting to run multiple OS's, but
noone can expect a single configuration to meet everyone's needs!
>>We saw your numbers the first time you posted it. Why are you posting them
>>again?
>>
>Because I ran xbench using local ipc and did not have a second computer
>the first time, also someone noticed that my results where for local
>ipc and stated that I was comparing apples to oranges.
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