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From: cazier@mbunix.mitre.org (Cazier)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: LAN Traffic impact
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Date: 7 May 90 16:01:07 GMT
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If a group wanted to switch from a mainframe world of many users to
a system running X-windows, would that necessarily rule out mainframes?
Let's say that we are running an Amdahl 5990/UTS and wanted to put
a LAN intensive application on it under X-windows, does X-windows
exist for Amdahl's UTS currently?

How busy would an ethernet LAN be with 50 users logged onto an X-windows
host (client?). Let's just say they have inactive (idle) sessions, how
much traffic would the idle X-windows client/server connection generate
in a quiet state?

Now suppose that each user became more active....xfering ascii data from
a remote site (thru NFS), how much more traffic would be generated just
from the X-windows activity?

Does anyone know of ANY systems managing 50 X-window users at one time?
How about 250 users at one time?