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From: ricardo@parns.nsc.com (Dick Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi.cad
Subject: X terminals of workstations
Keywords: X, X terminals
Message-ID: <108@oaxaca.nsc.com>
Date: 13 Apr 89 01:28:00 GMT
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Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
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Tait Cyrus, in his previous posting, brought up an interesting subject
on which no one has commented.  Which is better, individual workstations
for all users or X-terminals tied to a large server.  The cost of soft-
ware licenses may make the latter option a more cost effective solution
when servers become large enough to handle multiple users.  Local servers
eliminate the graphics communications cost for most applications.

Is anyone else evaluating this alternative?

Dick Smith                ricardo@parns.nsc.com
National Semiconductor
P.O. Box 58090, MS D3677
Santa Clara, CA  95054
(408) 721-4794