Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!aglew From: aglew@oberon.csg.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Single user vs. shared (was Re: Killer Micros and vectorized code) Message-ID: Date: 19 Mar 90 19:23:32 GMT References: <51771@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <100598@convex.convex.com> <52661@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1990Mar18.023523.4034@ultra.com> <52817@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <2165@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois, Computer Systems Group Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM's message of 19 Mar 90 16:16:56 GMT ..> Single user workstations vs. centralized computing I want to by a killer micro single user workstation, but that's because I want to *own* it myself, and not have it taken away from me when I change jobs/universities etc. As for my day to day work I don't mind sharing cycles, as long as I never experience any slowdown. Fair-share schedulers are a must for any centralized copmputing facility that expects me to pay for my portion of the system. I am much more interested in single user dismountable mass storage in my office than I am in a single user workstation. Give my a floptical disk on my desktop, connected to that centralized compute server! Plus a color laserprinter and scanner on my desktop. Give me anything that I have to get up and move down the hall to use on my desktop (and a new generation of flabby, unexercised, computer users is born). -- Andy Glew, aglew@uiuc.edu