From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 20 01:19:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA15932 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 01:19:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.ukc.ac.uk (mercury.ukc.ac.uk [129.12.21.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA15924 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 01:19:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from K.R.Marshall@ukc.ac.uk) Received: from plato.ukc.ac.uk by mercury.ukc.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Fri, 20 Feb 1998 09:18:23 +0000 Received: from pckrm2 by plato.ukc.ac.uk (SMI-8.6/UKC-2.14) id JAA06331; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 09:18:20 GMT Message-ID: <00d101bd3de0$5a1b5030$1f3a0c81@pckrm2.ukc.ac.uk> From: Keith Marshall To: Tom , Andrzej Bialecki Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , Jonathan Mini , freebsd-current Subject: Re: MGR and libvgl Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 09:17:21 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Tom To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: Pedro F. Giffuni ; Jonathan Mini ; 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