Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:19:20 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD Message-ID: <19981022121920.R9354@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3C199810221035=2EMAA23454=40sos=2Efreebsd=2Edk=3E=3B_fro?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?m_S=F8ren_Schmidt_on_Thu=2C_Oct_22=2C_1998_at_12:35:19PM_?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?%2B0200?= References: <19981022110658.P9354@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> <199810221035.MAA23454@sos.freebsd.dk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:35:19PM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: > 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 ;-) > Yes indeed. We should just make everyone learn LaTeX & lynx instead :) -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19981022121920.R9354>