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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Killer Micros and vectorized code
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Date: 19 Mar 90 21:10:37 GMT
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In article <52661@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
writes:

>The sentence I have often used, "No one will survive the attack of the
>Killer Micros," is not to be misinterpreted as "No one will survive the
>attach of the Killer Single User WorkStations."  The single user workstations
>are indeed Killers, but they are essentially wasted computer resources.
>Corporate America will eventually catch on to this and switch to
>X display stations and efficiently shared computer resources.

By the time you buy a loaded X-terminal with 4MB of RAM and a large
screen, you might as well pay the $2K extra for a small swappin 'disk and a
full-blown CPU. The jury (at least MY jury) is still out on X-terminals.

If shared resources are such wonderful critters, how come multiuser Macs
aren't popular? Or '386es? You could conceivably hang multiple terminals
from a '386 or '486 box, but I haven't heard of people rushing out to do so.

Long live the revolution; I'll figure out what to do with all the MIPS later.
Solbourne is supposed to be coming out with a 40MIPS/10K workstation by
the end of the year. Batten the hatches folks; life is going to get more,
not less, interesting....