Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!kth!enea!maxim!prc From: prc@maxim.ERBE.SE (Robert Claeson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: A Thought on X Terminals Message-ID: <510@maxim.ERBE.SE> Date: 25 Feb 89 15:00:48 GMT References: <19613@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <7627@venera.isi.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: ERBE DATA AB Lines: 29 In article <7627@venera.isi.edu>, raveling@vaxb.isi.edu (Paul Raveling) writes: > >In article <7610@venera.isi.edu> raveling@isi.edu (Paul Raveling) writes: > >> 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 users of a windowing terminal can use LISP running > on a different host machine; given the same software on > the host, each user would still need his own 75 MB of > swap space on the host. That was the original poster's point > about resource costs -- some represent a constant cost, > no matter what part of the overall system they're in. But 10x75 MB of SWAP on a large host is more cost-effective than 75MB of swap per workstation since the swap space is shared among all users. One user can run his multi-super LISP simulation that uses 250 MB of swap during off-hours, when there's few other memory-hungry applications running. . -- Robert Claeson, ERBE DATA AB, P.O. Box 77, S-175 22 Jarfalla, Sweden Tel: +46 (0)758-202 50 Fax: +46 (0)758-197 20 EUnet: rclaeson@ERBE.SE uucp: {uunet,enea}!erbe.se!rclaeson ARPAnet: rclaeson%ERBE.SE@uunet.UU.NET BITNET: rclaeson@ERBE.SE