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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] rio & acme & plan9
Date: Mon,  7 May 2007 19:28:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50ef2ef1ed9aa003480a105c5a9bea57@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <038D1F1F-7497-495B-9735-7CC19E05FFBF@tinker.com>

On Mon May  7 15:00:02 EDT 2007, kim@tinker.com wrote:
> Just to make sure I have this straight, a cpu server is not running
> a terminal server as its console.  The keyboard, mouse, and display
> on the cpu server are not under the control of a terminal server.

yes.  except in plan 9 a terminal is the opposite of a server so 
they're generally refered to as terminals.

> That is the setup I am going for (cpu/auth/file server and drawterm).
> However, for someone who only has one machine, what is the preferred
> setup and why?

i don't think anything is perferred about such a setup.  however, i
ran a terminal with fossil only for about 6 months before i got a fs working.
this was acceptable for working on stuff.

> I realize that the previous question could be an invitation to a holy
> war.  That is not my intent.  I have been thinking about computers from
> a UNIX perspective for a long time and I have a lot of inertia to
> overcome. Explanations of motivation or why something is done the way it
> is, is very instructive to me at my current state of non-understanding.

sounds like you're getting it.  the papers in /sys/doc are still good, though
dated.

- erik


      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-07 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-04 20:08 Tom Simons
2007-05-04 20:13 ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-04 20:18 ` ron minnich
2007-05-05  2:17 ` Federico Benavento
2007-05-07  7:02   ` Wes
2007-05-07 17:57     ` Kim Shrier
2007-05-07 18:29       ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-07 19:00         ` Kim Shrier
2007-05-07 23:28           ` erik quanstrom [this message]

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