From: stempien@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Brian Stempien) Subject: Re: X terminals: Suggestion for projects like SLS, MCC, etc. Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 14:19:18 GMT
Ok folks this is getting out of hand. Felix, get some manners, personal
attacks on the net are not very sociable. Mr Davis, don't you think it is a
little rude to try and push Xterminals on a group dedicated to a Unix like
OS? please take this out of comp.os.linux at least. By the way I like how you
ignored the post about the Xserver actually running on the host for that
particular brand of Xterminal, can you clear that one up, since you seem to
manage some of this model.
All of these devices have there place. If I was running MANY people with
very compute intensive graphics programs (visualization, rendering, etc) I
would go with some workstations, even PC's with S3 based cards would do
better than overloading one host (and I believe Mr. Davis is correct about
the term in this case being a host). But, if all that is being done is some
programing and general office type work, I think an Xterminal would be a
good solution, especially from a admin point of view. So it comes down to
this, every situation is different. Mr. Gallo, Xterminals are not all bad,
Mr Davis, they are no where near the be all and end all you seem to think
they are.
Also please try to compare apples to apples. A mono Xterminal will almost
always beat a color/gray-scale Unix machine. This has to do with the simple
fact that dealing with 1bit of data is much faster than 8bits...
So everyone, put away your barbs and quite fighting like little children.
The Internet does not need to ship your little feud around the world any
longer.