Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:46:30 -0400 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD Message-ID: <4.1.0.67.19981022124559.0097ba40@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <19981022110658.P9354@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> References: <199810220946.LAA23234@sos.freebsd.dk> <Pine.GSO.3.95q.981022113426.17573J-100000@elect8> <199810220946.LAA23234@sos.freebsd.dk>
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Only time I see anything above 0.05 is probably when I'm doing make world :-) At 11:06 AM 10/22/98 +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: >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 ><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 --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275 http://www.droo.orland.me.us My Latest Kernel: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (ONEEX) #14: Mon Oct 19 22:36:58 EDT 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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