Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:35:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Scott Mitchell) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199810221035.MAA23454@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <19981022110658.P9354@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> from Scott Mitchell at "Oct 22, 98 11:06:58 am"
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In reply to Scott Mitchell who wrote:
> >
> > 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.
Yeah, as long as you dont run anything like netscape & staroffice then ;-)
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end?
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