On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 11:27:51AM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: > This just isn't true. The cpu server lets you use its cpu. > And in the early days, it was a lot easier to buy a really fast > cpu server than it was to buy a really fast terminal. It's still > more cost-effective. I didn't say that wasn't the main reason, just that proximity to the file server was also a factor, I can't find the quote I'm looking for which I think was more explicit, but from http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/9.html
"The effect of running a cpu command is therefore to start a shell on a fast machine, one more tightly coupled to the file server" And I wasn't as much trying to make history remark, as trying to point an important and often overlooked feature of 'cpu' servers. uriel
