Re: [help] 1 cpu to rule them all

From: Desi Cortez (desi_at_aaa.com.NOSPAM)
Date: 07/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 05:24:15 GMT

Erik Funkenbusch wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 23:18:47 GMT, Bill Mazlar wrote:
>
>> The processor chips of most computers nowadays are somewhat overkill if
>> all you need to use it for are non-intensive tasks like word processing
>> and surfing the net. I'm interested in finding a way to have up to 5
>> multiple users collectively harness the power of only a single computer
>> to keep my hardware costs down. This would mean 1 cpu tower and input
>> devices: 5 monitors, 5 keyboards, and 5 mice. As image quality could
>> be a factor, I would probably opt for LCD screens with DVI rather than
>> CRT and also take advantage of energy savings. Each user must have an
>> independent desktop environment and of course, have access to the same
>> database on the hard drive(s) installed on the system.
>
> I've seen several such systems as this over the years. The most recent is
> a Linux based system found here:
>
>
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.c3sl.ufpr.br&langpair=pt%7Cen&hl=pt&ie=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
>
> Several years ago I saw similar systems built on Windows, though i've not
> seen any recently.

Are you people dense?

Of course there are multiuser Unix/Linux systems with graphics terminals
attached. That's how real computing was *done* in those days...

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