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Subject: Re: Netscape & FreeBSD
To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 19:13:47 +0200 (MESZ)
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In-Reply-To: <199607071649.SAA29482@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Jul 7, 96 06:49:32 pm
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In his e-mail Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> 
> > (e.g. here, at Siemens) is that they have a couple of big multi CPU
> > unix servers and a whole bunch of X-terminals (an x-terminal is basically
> > a diskless machine running an X server).  One indeed logs into the unix
> > machine, gets a prompt there, and starts any X11 app which then displays
> 
> ahhh... the fun of having 50 copies of netscape, each consuming
> 3..5MB of memory (or more) on the server.... :)

Well, the 1gig machine which is the exclusive netscape/mosaic app server
doesn't complain too much.  It's still cheaper than having 50 workstations
with a copy of netscape each :)

NB, Siemens gets *very* good prices on RAM.  They, sort of, produce it :)

/Marino
> 
> 	Luigi
> ====================================================================
> Luigi Rizzo                     Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
> email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
> tel: +39-50-568533              via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy)
> fax: +39-50-568522              http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/
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