Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:55:04 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Computers Message-ID: <19980921175504.64901@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199809211723.KAA17886@kithrup.com>; from Sean Eric Fagan on Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 10:23:20AM -0700 References: <xzpn27tobrd.fsf.kithrup.freebsd.chat@urdarbrunni.ifi.uio.no> <199809211723.KAA17886@kithrup.com>
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On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 10:23:20AM -0700, Sean Eric Fagan woke me up to tell me: > > The big push for the "network computer" was because it costs a hell of a lot > of money to maintain and upgrade thousands of computers. Most of this > maintainence and upgrading is with the software. So someone thought, Wouldn't > it be nifty if the software could be upgraded in one central location, and > then all of the computers in the company would automatically pick it up? The phrases 'NFS' and 'rdist' come to mind first. Yeah, I know it's not perfect, but it's a set in the right direction. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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