From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 22 03:07:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA16845 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 03:07:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA16836 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 03:07:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk) Received: from brunos-sun.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.185]; by hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5/S-4.0) with SMTP; for ""; id LAA15434; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:07:20 +0100 (BST) Received: locally by brunos-sun (SMI-8.6/QMW-client-3.2b); for "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG"; poster "scott"; id LAA28683; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:06:58 +0100 Message-ID: <19981022110658.P9354@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:06:58 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD References: <199810220946.LAA23234@sos.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3C199810220946=2ELAA23234=40sos=2Efreebsd=2Edk=3E=3B_fro?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?m_S=F8ren_Schmidt_on_Thu=2C_Oct_22=2C_1998_at_11:46:11AM_?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?+0200?= Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 11:46:11AM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: > In reply to Nick Hibma who wrote: > > > Why on earth would one want that ?? With todays PC prices one can easily > > > afford multible machines, especially when you have to buy the monitor & > > > keyboard for each anyways. > > > > Desktop space? > > Hmm, monitor and Keyboard takes up the most space, the CPU unit can be put > under the table :) > > Besides, what the use of such systems, one user can easily use all the CPU > in one machine, and running multiple X's etc seems a good way to use > sufficiently of resources to make it a pain to use... Eh? Maybe people over here on -hackers are an exception, but the things that things that most computers spend most of their time doing (web surfing, email, word processing, editing code, etc) hardly tax a 486, let alone the monster machines you can get for small change these days. True, you *can* use up all the CPU, but usually only for a short time. Having one box serve the interactive needs of a small group of users rather than spending 90% of its time idling seems like a fine idea. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message