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From: mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Open question on NFS, efficiency, etc.
Message-ID: <586@winchester.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Aug-87 04:15:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: winchest.586
Posted: Tue Aug 11 04:15:05 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Aug-87 03:03:31 EDT
References: <8730@brl-adm.ARPA> <7779@slate.BBN.COM> <2473@ames.arpa>
Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <2473@ames.arpa> lamaster@ames.UUCP (Hugh LaMaster) writes:
....
>Another approach to the diskless workstation (which I currently attribute to
>an employee of DEC) is to view it as a window server:

This is starting to sound like the BBN BitGraph, (BTL Blit /
Teletype 5620 / ATT 630?), or osmeo f hte other graphics terminalstaht
are starting to come in to existence that basically act as X-windows
servers.

This raises the itnersting issue: what are the tradeoffs between:
	a) diskless nodes + servers
	vs
	b) window-server terminals + (bigger?) servers
in terms of:
	a) cost per seat
	b) ease of use
	c) overall response time
	d) General program-structuring issues.
-- 
-john mashey	DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc>
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