Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!dawn!stpeters From: stpeters@dawn.steinmetz Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: A Thought on X Terminals Message-ID: <13242@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 23 Feb 89 23:03:04 GMT References: <19613@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <611@gt-eedsp.UUCP> <4921@xenna.Encore.COM> <13216@steinmetz.ge.com> <7610@venera.isi.edu> Sender: news@steinmetz.ge.com Reply-To: dawn!stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP () Distribution: comp Organization: GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 37 In article <7610@venera.isi.edu> raveling@isi.edu (Paul Raveling) writes: > For a different perspective, my workstation has about > 3/4 gigabyte of local disk and mounts about the same > from a file server, another workstation, and a VAX. Apples vs. oranges here. I said my Sun has 2.9MB in its *root* partition. That's the (shared) space need just to make it function, which is all it would have to do if it were (note subjunctive) used just as a windowing terminal. I use it as a real workstation and have gigabyte upon gigabyte mounted from 15 servers from Sun, DEC, HP, and Encore. > Another aspect of our different perspective is that > we need about 75 megabytes of swap space, with the > biggest demand coming from running LISP under UNIX. But you can't run LISP on a windowing terminal either. There seems to be a disconnect in this newsgroup/mailing-list between those who want to use X as a network window system (server in front of me, application running somewhere else) and those who want to use X mainly as a local window system (server and application on the same machine). As you might guess by now, I have a fair bit of swap space too, but the issue was how easily/cheaply a diskless workstation could be used just as a terminal. > The bottom line is there's a whole range of requirements > for different users. The best solution for any given > organization can easily be a mix of X terminals, diskless > workstations, "diskful" workstations, and even mainframes. Agreed wholeheartedly, except I'd substitute "compute engines" for mainframes. -- Dick St.Peters GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@ge-crd.arpa uunet!steinmetz!stpeters