Re: Single user vs. shared (was Re: Killer Micros and vectorized code)

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From: Andy Glew
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 1990 19:23

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..> Single user workstations vs. centralized computing

I want to by a killer micro single user workstation, but that's
because I want to *own* it myself, and not have it taken away from me
when I change jobs/universities etc.  As for my day to day work I
don't mind sharing cycles, as long as I never experience any slowdown.
Fair-share schedulers are a must for any centralized copmputing
facility that expects me to pay for my portion of the system.

I am much more interested in single user dismountable mass storage in
my office than I am in a single user workstation.  Give my a floptical
disk on my desktop, connected to that centralized compute server!
Plus a color laserprinter and scanner on my desktop.  Give me anything
that I have to get up and move down the hall to use on my desktop (and
a new generation of flabby, unexercised, computer users is born).

--
Andy Glew, aglew@uiuc.edu

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Subject: Re: Single user vs. shared (was Re: Killer Micros and vectorized code)
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