16 Jun
2005
16 Jun
'05
7:17 a.m.
>>>> "Fred" == Fred N van Kempen
<waltje at pdp11.nl> writes:
Fred> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Andy Holt wrote:
>
> > * I wonder what is the largest number of concurrent "tty" users
> that is > reliably reported as having been run on a Unix system.
Fred> I
have seen installations with 300+ users online. Obviously,
Fred> these were ran with terminal multiplexers, terminal servers and
Fred> other kinds of smart front-ends, as to not kill the main system
Fred> with line interrupts :)
Not Unix but timesharing, and more demanding at that -- the University
of Illinois PLATO system had 1000 terminals and most days hit its
configured limit of 600 active users, in the 1970s, on a 10 MHz
processor.
Its modern day successor serves a lot more terminals than that; some
vague memory says a million connect hours per month...
paul