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From: greg@sce.carleton.ca (Greg Franks)
Subject: Re: Killer Micro Question
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 14:44:15 GMT

randy@ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton) writes:
>But how does each user, who is about to log in, know which machine to
>log into?  He ought to log into the one with the lowest load average, yet
>without logging on cannot determine which one that is.

I believe that DEC's VMS (gack) handles this situation automagically.
I could be wrong - It's been four years.

  ..greg



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