[NTLUG:Discuss] to sum it up...things have come full circle.

[Michael H. Collins]

Steve Baker wrote:

> Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> 
>>ok.. diskless workstations running off a central computer and all of this in
>>a *nix environment.  We've some full circle. We went from the 'centralized'
>>main frame days to the distributed PC days and now we are rapidly heading
>>back towards those centralized days again.
>>
> 
> I'm not sure that's true - the diskless option only really refers to where
> your files are stored - in most office setups, people will be keeping their
> files on a central file server - keeping your system software there as well
> isn't *that* much of a change.
>


As far as ltsp goes, the basic package runs all the apps on the server. 
  50 Users
on a 233 doesn't show much degradation,  <really>  There are add on 
configs that
  allow local apps and that is what one does if they notice server slowdown.
A 233 is prolly in some respects more robust than old mainframes.  We have
speculated about how many users we could get on an S-390 and the number was
phenominal.

join channel #ltsp at irc.openprojects.net where there is always a good 
discussion going on.

Have fun.

 
> All of the actual *computing* still happens locally.  In the central
> mainframe days, the terminals were truly dumb and all the processing
> happened on the mainframe.  That was bad news because it didn't scale
> well with the number of users.
> 
> Diskless Linux boxes are quite a different proposition.
> 
> 
>>PS, as I spell check this message I added Linux to the dictionary.  Dang MS
>>and their failure to include THAT technical term.. Geesh!
>>
> 
> (Back in the days of PDP-11's when Unix spell checkers first appeared, the
> UNIX v7 machine we had at college would try to correct the spelling of
> "The UNIX operating system" to "The unisex operating system"...I always
> thought it was pretty amusing that the system couldn't even spell it's
> own name!  My theory for why we always had to say "The UNIX(tm) operating
> system" was that this avoided the spell checker's little problem! :-)
> 
> 


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