From: "James A. Robinson" <jimr@highwire.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 20:33:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPd04b6X6G-g74bt_QdS74dfz2YE_QLY_5WB-pApQjb14TwBUw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74EC26F7-B6A1-4002-90DA-F232F867ACE1@yahoo.ca>
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Yeah, and and I wonder how the little Raspberry Pi compares to hardware
that was being used for terminals back in the late 90s. It's certainly got
more memory and local storage available than many personal computers,
though I imagine the i/o bus is slower.
Digging around in my email I found this set of specs from my very first
workstation at my first full-time job in 1997:
Pentium 100MHz
2MB ATI Xpression Graphics
1 GB Disk (<13ms avg seek time, min. 64k cache); EIDE (not SCSI).
32 MB RAM
3com 3c509 combo ethernet card
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:22 PM Chris McGee <sirnewton_01@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> It would be interesting to hear how this works out in practice. The
> bandwidth requirement is probably so low compared to typical traffic from a
> hotel, compared even to smart phones.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-30 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-30 19:49 James A. Robinson
2016-09-30 20:20 ` Chris McGee
2016-09-30 20:33 ` James A. Robinson [this message]
2016-09-30 20:36 ` John Weaver
2016-09-30 22:54 ` hiro
2016-09-30 23:56 ` Erik Quanstrom
2016-10-01 6:32 ` James A. Robinson
2016-10-01 8:06 ` hiro
2016-10-01 8:17 ` James A. Robinson
2016-10-01 11:57 ` Chris McGee
2016-10-01 13:40 ` James A. Robinson
2016-10-01 13:58 ` Chris McGee
2016-09-30 20:40 ` Steve Simon
2016-09-30 22:57 ` hiro
2016-10-01 22:40 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-10-01 23:04 ` hiro
2016-10-02 9:10 ` Richard Miller
2016-10-02 15:03 ` James A. Robinson
2016-10-03 2:07 ` Chris McGee
2016-10-03 2:28 ` sl
2016-10-03 2:35 ` Chris McGee
2016-10-03 2:47 ` sl
2016-10-03 3:57 ` James A. Robinson
2016-10-03 2:39 ` Alex Musolino
[not found] <1631101077.3767158.1475340735977.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2016-10-01 16:52 ` Brian L. Stuart
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