On Tuesday 30 April 2002 10:11, you wrote:
> > Another example, look at www.ltsp.org, they are netbooting old
> > retired PC's used a diskless xterminals and hanging up to 200
> > of them off a modern machine that the apps run on.
>
> I've considered doing something like that just for fun, and it's
> interesting, but as far as being a "cluster," I'm not sure it would
> qualify in my book. :) Or did you mean it as an example of something
> else?
Linux clusters are not what this is about,
even as they are mixing ltsp and mosix
http://people.nl.linux.org/~jelmer/ltsp-mosix.html
ltsp clients connected to mosix clusters.
Its a PC handling 100's of graphical terminals,
i dont recall many mainframes handling as many textonly green
screens untill well into the 370 era, if even then,, it was all batch
jobs for the most part. punch cards and other offline gruntwork
to prepare a job for very expensive cpu time was the norm.
Even the concept of interactivity and more than one user/job at a time
met much resistance inside IBM.
read the story of VM
http://pucc.princeton.edu:80/~melinda
In anycase, ltsp and related work shows one of the things people
are doing that shows how much the PC has grown up, once
you shovel it out from under the hopper cars of winbloat.
Raymond
Your Mother Runs TSO !
Received on Wed May 01 2002 - 03:13:55 BST