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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Academic workstations -- Followups to comp.unix.questions ONLY
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Date: 10 Jun 89 00:22:34 GMT
References: <507@lclark.UUCP> <CLINE.89Jun9165618@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
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In article <CLINE.89Jun9165618@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> cline@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Marshall Cline) writes:
>We have a SINGLE disk server in our School of Engineering, all other
>workstations being diskless (thin wire 10Mb/s Ethernet), being
>connected via Sun's NFS.  There are probably 20 or more "clients"
>running off this one server.  Although we're pushing the performance
>of the disk server, the concept of a single disk server is the BEST
>THING SINCE SLICED BREAD.
......
>Having a central location for files (the disk server) means that each
>workstation that you log onto acts like it has your files.  No two
>versions, etc.

This sounds like an argument for X-window terminals, almost,
depending on how much execution goes on in the workstations versus the
host; i.e., you're probably now bottlenecked thru the host's disk
subsystem.
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