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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:19:20 +0100
From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD
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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 :)

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