On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 15:29, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> > That goes for most remote windowing protocols. When Cosc ran
> > X-Terminals, rather than thick clients, things could get very slow.
> > Thoes were the days #Memories, like the corners of my mind...#
>
> That's because they put a whole honking lab of Xterms on a single 10Mbit
> co-ax. Pete G, you were there. It was about 20-30 machines on a cable
> wasn't it? I don't actually remember it being that slow, unless 30
> people were logging in at once.
At the end of the year things got slow with everyone compiling their
projects at the same time, but that was due to the server being
overloaded rather than the network. It is often hard to tell the
difference :)
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Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/
