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From: dinah@krebs.bcm.tmc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: X terminals and system resources
Keywords: Windows
Message-ID: <1009@brazos.Rice.edu>
Date: 17 Aug 89 20:19:28 GMT
Organization: Sun-Spots
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 101, message 11 of 16

We are wanting to hang quite a few X terminals off our Sun/Solbourne file
servers. I am curious to know what other folks are doing, specifically:

1) How many terminals are you running off a single host
2) The nature of the applications you are running
3) Host configuration (memory, cpu type, etc.)

One of the big questions is does it really make sense to use X terminals
when we can get workstations so cheaply? It should be cheaper to use X
terminals, but if you have to have a high ratio of servers to X terminals,
it may not be so cheap!

I can post a summary if any one is interested.

Dinah Anderson					 internet: dinah@bcm.tmc.edu 
Baylor College of Medicine	           uucp: {rutgers,mailrus}!bcm!dinah