Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 19:13:47 +0200 (MESZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape & FreeBSD Message-ID: <199607071713.AA089269627@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <199607071649.SAA29482@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Jul 7, 96 06:49:32 pm
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In his e-mail Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > (e.g. here, at Siemens) is that they have a couple of big multi CPU > > unix servers and a whole bunch of X-terminals (an x-terminal is basically > > a diskless machine running an X server). One indeed logs into the unix > > machine, gets a prompt there, and starts any X11 app which then displays > > ahhh... the fun of having 50 copies of netscape, each consuming > 3..5MB of memory (or more) on the server.... :) Well, the 1gig machine which is the exclusive netscape/mosaic app server doesn't complain too much. It's still cheaper than having 50 workstations with a copy of netscape each :) NB, Siemens gets *very* good prices on RAM. They, sort of, produce it :) /Marino > > Luigi > ==================================================================== > Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione > email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa > tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) > fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ > ==================================================================== >
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