Our minimum client in the hospitals is a 200mhz machine with 32MB, but the
day of at least 64 - 128 is fast approaching. The PC folks are attempting
to convert to Windows Terminal Services i.e. Metaframe, and have in some
areas issued embedded Linux WinTerms to connect to the Metaframe servers
in areas where full PC's are not needed.
Things go full circle back to the equivalent of DECservers and terminals,
without the reliability. I do Unix and VMS but am considered in the same
group as the folks who do Metaframe server admin, and my pager is always
going off with some quirk or another preventing someone from working or a
bunch getting kicked out en mass etc.
As far as the recent legacy discussion goes, the rules as
defined my M$ and implemented via mgt. inertia were simple at least until
recently:
Non Win NT/win 2k operating systems = legacy
As M$ licensing costs and policies get more draconian it is amusing to
watch 'unauthorized' use of the term legacy creep further into Windows
territory as more folks consider Linux for embedded applications where
they don't wish to deal with licensing embedded m$ products or less often
but growing in areas in direct competition to w2k. It could prove
beneficial for other non-windows OS's provided the vendors don't screw it
up somehow.
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, McFadden, Mike wrote:
> Our hospital now considers any computers less than 300 MHz as "old" and
> needing to be replaced. Most of our software venders now say that anything
> less than that is not acceptable for their applications, most also want 64
> Mb of memory.
>
> Our department still uses 486/33's and WordPerfect 5.1 for word processing
> and they are very reliable.
>
> mike
> mmcfadden_at_cmh.edu
>
> >From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
> >Subject: Re: HP 9000 520
> >
> > I've been noticing a very disturbing trend...anything that isn't an
> >overclocked Intel box is "old" or "legacy".
> >
> > For those of us who care about the quality of what we put on our
> >desktops (and in our computer rooms), this is pretty frightening.
> >
> > -Dave McGuire
>
>
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