Re: [TUHS] Re: the wheel of reincarnation goes sideways - COFF

13 Mar 2023

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 &lt;roam(a)ringlet.net&gt; wrote:
...

 On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 02:52:43PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
  [bumping to COFF]

 On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 2:05 PM ron minnich &lt;rminnich(a)gmail.com&gt; 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.  [snip]
  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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