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Date:      Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:39:10 -0800
From:      Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>
To:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>, Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MGR and libvgl
Message-ID:  <19980219153910.45101@micron.mini.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219124832.15022H-100000@shell.uniserve.com>; from Tom on Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 12:52:07PM -0800
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.980219213936.27649A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219124832.15022H-100000@shell.uniserve.com>

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Tom <tom@uniserve.com> stands accused of saying:
>   It is such a good idea that Microsoft will releasing "Microsoft Terminal
> Services" for NT shortly!  This is technology absorbed from Citrix.
> Product was originally called Winframe I believe.  The idea is to have a
> central NT server with gobs of CPUs and memory, and desktops just run a
> thin terminal client.  Citrix was claiming that their thin client could
> run on a 286 with 1MB of RAM...
> 
>   And people thought that era of mainframes and centralized computing was
> dead!

   Nahh. Microsoft is just taking it's time to learn that UNIX has
always been a good idea.

-- 
Jonathan Mini
(j_mini@efn.org)

 "A child of five could understand this! Quick -- Fetch me a child of five."

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