From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: X terminals: Suggestion for projects like SLS, MCC, etc. Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 20:56:00 GMT
In article <1993Jun14.194758.18781@beaver.cs.washington.edu> pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis) writes:
>In article <1993Jun14.145054.20767@wixer.bga.com> rhodesia@wixer.bga.com (Felix S. Gallo) writes:
>>mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) writes:
>You've clearly never managed an X terminal. I do. 68 of 'em. They are
>at least two orders of magnitude easier than managing a Unix host.
What makes you think that if an X-terminal company can write
a simple configuration program that we can't do the same for
a diskless workstation?
>On our instructional netwrok, we have (had) 2 hosts supporting 32 X
>terminals along with another dozen or so ascii terminals. That makes
>about 44 of the *most* demanding users: CS undergrads. Ever seen what
>a decent session of nettrek does to your system ? Let alone our own
>client/server multi-player dogfight, an application that makes large
>database queries look like "grep" in comparison (network load wise,
>anyway).
I am curious as to the performance of such a network and the host
computer?
Amancio
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