Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tank!ncar!unmvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!me1.lbl.gov!milburn
From: milburn@me1.lbl.gov (John Milburn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: A Thought on X Terminals
Message-ID: <2085@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 11 Mar 89 08:33:06 GMT
References: <GRUNWALD.89Jan24142630@flute.cs.uiuc.edu> <19613@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <7627@venera.isi.edu> <510@maxim.ERBE.SE> <2856@stpstn.UUCP>
Sender: usenet@helios.ee.lbl.gov
Reply-To: JEMilburn@lbl.gov
Distribution: comp
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Lines: 15

In article <2856@stpstn.UUCP> aad@stepstone.com writes:
>In article <510@maxim.ERBE.SE> prc@maxim.ERBE.SE (Robert Claeson) writes:
>
>>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.
>
>Under whose OS?  Certainly not SunOS.  Swap space exists as one big file
>for each client:

HP for one. Discless clients share swap space with the server.

John Milburn    Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
INTERNET:  JEMilburn@lbl.gov
DECNet:    LBL::JEMilburn        SnailMail: 1 Cyclotron Road 46-161
Ma Bell:    (415) 486-6969                   Berkeley, Ca. 94720