NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/biz/sco/general/4904

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From: "Paul A. Fischer, Sr UNIX Sys Consultant" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: time command
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>I see it differently.  Running a 386 box from a terminal is a primitive
>form of "client/server" computing.  Running it from the console is not.

>With a terminal, your application simply shoves its output to the
>terminal.  The terminal does the work of placing the character into
>the screen buffer, moving the cursor to the next position (which can
>include wrapping to the first column of the next line), and scrolling
>the screen if you're on the last line.

>When you're on the console, the computer must handle your command *and*
>perform all the character and cursor manipulations for the screen.  Thus,
>the work that normally would be off-loaded to the terminal is seen by the
>cpu and it leaves that much less available to the rest of the system.

Interesting view point.  Realizing also that any multiport board will also off
load the i/o processing from the CPU, and buffer the data.

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