13 Mar
2023
13 Mar
'23
10:34 p.m.
I don't know if a thousand users ever logged in there at one time, but
they do tend to have a lot of simultaneous logins.
On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 6:16 PM Peter Pentchev <roam(a)ringlet.net> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 02:52:43PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
[snip]
[bumping to COFF]
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 2:05 PM ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> The wheel of reincarnation discussion got me to thinking:
[snip]
The
evolution of platforms like laptops to becoming full distributed systems continues.
The wheel of reincarnation spins counter clockwise -- or sideways?
About a year ago, I ran across an email written a decade or more prior
on some mainframe mailing list where someone wrote something like,
"wow! It just occurred to me that my Athlon machine is faster than the
ES/3090-600J I used in 1989!" Some guy responded angrily, rising to
the wounded honor of IBM, raving about how preposterous this was
because the mainframe could handle a thousand users logged in at one
time and there's no way this Linux box could ever do that. For that matter, a
thousand users probably _could_ telnet into the Athlon system. With
telnet in line mode, it'd probably even be decently responsive.
sdf.org (formerly sdf.lonestar.org) comes to mind...
G'luck,
Peter
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