From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: X terminals: Suggestion for projects like SLS, MCC, etc. Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 00:36:00 GMT
In article <1993Jun14.222400.23658@beaver.cs.washington.edu> pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis) writes:
>In article <hastyC8Mq5C.Mu3@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>>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?
>
>Mr. Gallo wasn't restricting his remarks to diskless workstations, but
>was describing PC's that run some OS like DOS, Unix or Linux.
So am I and you can call it 386bsd diskless for PCs :-)
The reason for being diskless is to reduced the cost of the system.
for instance for about $1200 you can purchase an ibm 486 slc2 50mhz based
system complete and with an S3 801 graphics card to stir up a storm.
My understading about the $875 quote is that is not generally available
for indiviuals like me.
>
>I notice that despite the demand, no-one has yet written such a
>"simple configuration program" as you describe. Lets just deal with a
Well, I am a consultant and have over ten years of experience as
a software engineer :-)
>few "trivial" issues: does the diskless workstation support printing ?
>If so how is printing configured ? Password file management ? Network
>interfaces ? Swap space ? User environment ?
I will leave that as an exercise for it is truly a system administration
task.
Amancio
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