From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 22 09:48:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA19827 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:48:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA19807 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:48:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from Celeris (56k-port4038.ime.net [209.90.195.48]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id MAA03733; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:47:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.0.67.19981022124559.0097ba40@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1.0.67 (Beta) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:46:30 -0400 To: Scott Mitchell , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19981022110658.P9354@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> References: <199810220946.LAA23234@sos.freebsd.dk> <199810220946.LAA23234@sos.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id JAA19817 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > | 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