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From: shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Single user vs. shared (was Re: Killer Micros and vectorized code)
Message-ID: <1990Mar20.194251.6147@ultra.com>
Date: 20 Mar 90 19:42:51 GMT
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m1phm02@fed.frb.gov (Patrick H. McAllister) writes:

>I can't imagine that several users' graphical interfaces can
>be run across an Ethernet at what a Mac/PC/single-user workstation user would
>consider to be an acceptable speed.

For some applications, it will take more network bandwidth to move
the graphics images than to move the data & programs needed to generate
the images.  For other applications, the opposite will be true.  It won't
always be the case that it's less load on the network to compute the
images locally.

Steve Jay
shj@ultra.com  ...ames!ultra!shj
Ultra Network Technologies / 101 Dagget Drive / San Jose, CA 95134 / USA
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