Re: [LUG] linux in schools - terminal ... man

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Evans wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:38:08AM +0100, Nick Kew wrote:
> >
> > > Are those seriously old pentiums?
> >
> > 66 MHz with 32 Mb RAM.
> >
> > My server is a 1Gig (chipset forgotten) with 256.
>
> Unless you have only a few terminals you really want
> as much RAM as possible in the server.

If I show my age I remember 256MB being far more than perfectly
adequate for strings of 5 X terminals all power users. But Mark
is right, these day Office suites and browsers seem to gobble it
all up. We were using Applixware at the time, so I assume it is
probably still less greedy, as I don't think it has changed
much.

Now when I use to fire up the statistics package and graph
datasets with millions of records interactively, that really use
to hurt the performance ;)

Memory is cheap, well cheaper than server upgrades ;)

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