On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 15:37, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > > 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 :)
Yes - when pukeko (the first ultrasparc) was installed, everyone left huia (a SS10) alone, so it got fairly responsive (1995ish) I only gave up my sun 3/50 at the start of this year, and only cos it developed memory problems.
