Yeah, and and I wonder how the little Raspberry Pi compares to hardware that was being used for terminals back in the late 90s. It's certainly got more memory and local storage available than many personal computers, though I imagine the i/o bus is slower.
Digging around in my email I found this set of specs from my very first workstation at my first full-time job in 1997: Pentium 100MHz 2MB ATI Xpression Graphics 1 GB Disk (<13ms avg seek time, min. 64k cache); EIDE (not SCSI). 32 MB RAM 3com 3c509 combo ethernet card On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:22 PM Chris McGee <sirnewton...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > It would be interesting to hear how this works out in practice. The > bandwidth requirement is probably so low compared to typical traffic from a > hotel, compared even to smart phones. >
