Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 09:17:21 -0000 From: Keith Marshall <K.R.Marshall@ukc.ac.uk> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>, Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MGR and libvgl Message-ID: <00d101bd3de0$5a1b5030$1f3a0c81@pckrm2.ukc.ac.uk>
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-----Original Message----- From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: Pedro F. Giffuni <giffunip@asme.org>; Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>; freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: 19 February 1998 20:58 Subject: Re: MGR and libvgl > It is such a good idea that Microsoft will releasing "Microsoft Terminal >Services" for NT shortly! This is technology absorbed from Citrix. >Product was originally called Winframe I believe. The idea is to have a >central NT server with gobs of CPUs and memory, and desktops just run a >thin terminal client. Citrix was claiming that their thin client could >run on a 286 with 1MB of RAM... Yes but have you seen how much they are going to charge for this..? One machine connecting will cost you as much as a WinNT license plus Client Access License, that doesn't take into account the charge for the Terminal Server software itself. That connecting machine might be a simple 386, so do you want to spend #100 on an operating system for it..? Especially when you could just run FreeBSD on it for nothing, and have a more reliable system.. Keith. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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