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On Mon, 16 Nov 1998 21:07:34 +0000, Tom Bird
<hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <364ca309.53967340@adhocntserver>, Tim Stannard
><stannard@adhoc.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>>>On a network, is it poss to share computer power, ie if one has say a
>>>486sx50 8Mb RAM and a PII 450 128Mb RAM is the 486 machine's
>>>performance going to be enhanced?
>>
>>No
>
>If they were all running Linux, you could have the apps running on the
>P-II and just piping the display output to the 486s.
>
>TB                   Barney the Hamster (RIP 22.10.1998)
Thanks, Tom. I am not sure that Linux/unix is the right OS for a
homework club, It would mean lots of work for me to learn....
This however is what I wanted to do, ie run the apps etc from a
"server" and have the 486s as little more than terminals. How do
people go about running networks with diskless or very small HDD
machines?
I bought some machines from auction not long ago they had 50 MB HDDs,
and had been networked together, running windows. How could they have
run say MS Office on this kit?
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