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- From: lazzaro@boom.CS.Berkeley.EDU (John Lazzaro)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: multiuser systems (was Re: IBM AS/400 is the world's slowest..)
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 19:36:15 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- Message-ID: <1i4qrfINNdp7@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <1993Jan1.102554.28575@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> <C07DK0.E7t@cs.bham.ac.uk> <16189@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
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- In article <16189@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- >
- >I suspect the people who suffered timeshared systems back then suffered
- >from having a timesharing system capable of supporting N people
- >comfortably, but having M > N (perhaps M >> N) people using it
- >regularly.
- >
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- In a workstation evironment, you can't grow N without growing CPU
- resources at the same time; in a multi-user environment, the variables
- are under separate control. In some sense, a workstation evironment
- is inherently more resistant to political problems than a multi-user
- environment, at least as far as CPU, core, and swap space are
- concerned; network bandwidth is the only political pressure point.
- Technology is easier to deal with than politics for many
- organizations, so choosing the technology that minimizes political
- problems is a big organizational win.
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