14 Aug
2006
14 Aug
'06
6:50 a.m.
e.stiebler wrote:
Paul Heller wrote:
This is how I operate, here -- though I have several different
servers (which just means getting xdm running properly on each
of them). I find I spend far less time maintaining that *group*
of (heterogenous) servers than my *one* Windows box. :-(
We could go back to secretarial pools and reduce
the number of
computers. Or we can go back to the days of timesharing and give up
all
the wonderful user oriented capabilities that a modern UI offers, but if
you include the end terminals in the comparison then it was not really a
single computer in my mind.
No, you don't have to go back to typewriters, but what about just using
what is there ? What about workgroups of around 16 X-Terminals, attached
to one computer ? Just one computer to update, just one to do backups,
just one virus-scanner ? I know, it is an M$ nightmare, but for the rest of us
?
This is where the "Internet is the Computer" is headed :-(