Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!asuvax!mcdphx!udc!chant!aglew From: aglew@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Andy-Krazy-Glew) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Low Productivity of Knowledge Workers Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 89 07:17:53 GMT References: <9676@venera.isi.edu> <189@crucible.UUCP> <291@voa3.UUCP> <7971@microsoft.UUCP> <6441@ficc.uu.net> <9605@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <3326@ur-cc.UUCP> <9716@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <6541@ficc.uu.net> Sender: aglew@urbana.mcd.mot.com Organization: Work: Motorola MCD, Urbana Design Center; School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 21 In-reply-to: peter@ficc.uu.net's message of 15 Oct 89 16:45:25 GMT >A case can be made that for a site with a large number of non-computer- >trained people will do much better with a single UNIX box and a number >of dumb terminals. You only need one expert... with PCs everyone has to >be computer-literate. Dumb terminals hell! How about a single UNIX box with a number of bitmapped graphics terminals? Give 'em a MAC interface... I've been trying to get this for a long time. Back when I was at Gould, working on a machine with enough CPU and I/O to conceivably handle 100s of bit-mapped screens at a time, if only there where a way of displaying the bits, I wrote memos about it. Well, finally it's been done. The SUNRIVER for *86 PCs, X terminals, and Motorola's own multiple tubes per box make it possible. -- Andy "Krazy" Glew, Motorola MCD, aglew@urbana.mcd.mot.com 1101 E. University, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. {uunet!,}uiucuxc!udc!aglew My opinions are my own; I indicate my company only so that the reader may account for any possible bias I may have towards our products.