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To: Brian Tao <taob@nbc.netcom.ca>
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Subject: Re: Had the shotgun out and pointed at my -current/SMP box... 
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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 23:40:53 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> that could comfortably handle ~100 users.  With today's CPU's and the
> price of memory, it's too bad we can only get 256 pty's per machine.
> I'll bet a nice Pentium II system could handle 500 shell users.

Yeah, if only someone (sigh) would take up that cloning PTY driver
project, such arbitrary limits would be unnecessary.  [he gazes
wistfully off into the distance :-)]

					Jordan