28 Jan
2002
28 Jan
'02
2:01 p.m.
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Before all of you cry off-topic, doesn't it seem
odd to anyone we're now
full circle and back to low-power terminals connected to a "mainframe," now
that corporate America has gotten off its fat client kick?
A bunch of the Linux-heads here are heavily into the LTSP - Linux
Terminal Server Project. They're actually doing some healthy commercial
stuff with it.
My opinion, as a relative newcomer in the field, is that the price of
CPU cycles and storage vs the price of bandwidth drives that swing back
& forth. With a little Security consciousness thrown in.
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