[clug] IBM announcement

[Peter Barker]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Robert Edwards wrote:

(well, someone else here:)

> > You could probably run all of DCS using X terminals off the 4-way, and
> > still have pretty good performance, although they stopped doing the X

OK, you obviously missed the pre-x86 days. The /pain/ that the old
4-big-ass-sparc server setup w/ xterms caused is still with me. (at least,
that's the way I remember it).

Admittedly, I never experienced worked with the x86 hardware DCS has in
place.

> > Of course, students like Peter (I'll leave

Incidentally, everybody, that's not me :) Damn these common names...

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