From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 22 03:36:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA18444 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 03:36:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA18427 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 03:35:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA23454; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:35:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199810221035.MAA23454@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19981022110658.P9354@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> from Scott Mitchell at "Oct 22, 98 11:06:58 am" To: scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Scott Mitchell) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:35:19 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ;-) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message