Re: [help] 1 cpu to rule them all

From: Robert E A Harvey (robertharvey_at_my-deja.com)
Date: 07/11/04 

Date: 11 Jul 2004 09:09:46 -0700

Bill Mazlar <cookyourspam@your.home> wrote
> 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.

You might also want to consider a thin client solution. Use something
diskless like an Epia mother board or something like this:
http://www.semicom.co.uk/manufacturer/protech/pc_104/104_i613/em104_i613.html
http://www.dsl-ltd.co.uk/products/cpu1232spec.htm

then you run X as a display on the clients, and the applications on
the main machine. http://www.ltsp.org/

Thing is, you are re-inventing the history of computing. For years we
used to share CPUs, then they got very cheap. Somehwere in the
middle, people were selling graphics+keyboard cards so you could have
a 2nd user on one machine, but in the end the cost and complicaiton of
doing it wasn't worth it as the price of individual machines
plummetted