Re: Where do you put your swap partition?
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On 01/23/08 19:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 07:17:50PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> I'm really gettin' old!
>> Have you yet bitched and complained how kids today have it so much
>> easier, and don't appreciate what they have?
>
> I'm getting a new-to-me dot-matrix printer (Epson LQ-2080) delivered
> tomorrow. Next week I expect a VT-520. I wonder how many VT-520s a
> modern computer could support?
Directly attached via a serial multi-port card, or via an Ethernet
terminal server?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_server
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECserver
> When people had terminals instead of
> computers on their desks, how big was a computer with 2 GB ram and 500
> GB hard drive space and the power of a modern CPU (e.g. Athlon64)?
The last time I had an actual real-live VT220 on my desk was 1991.
Connected via LAT to a DECserver and then a VAXcluster, consisting
of a VAX 8600 & VAX 8800, each with 64MB RAM. Don't remember the
disk space, because the database was in a ShareBase/Britton-Lee
machine. Each was at least a full rack. 2GB RAM would have used a
simply enormous number of DIP RAM chips.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Area_Transport
> Then again, I tried to find an off-the-shelf good quality simple PS/2
> keyboard today with no luck. I want quality but without the noise of an
> IBM model M.
>
> Times change.
And we old-timers get to complain about wasteful, unappreciative
youth...
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian
because I hate vegetables!"
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