From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <74EC26F7-B6A1-4002-90DA-F232F867ACE1@yahoo.ca> In-Reply-To: <74EC26F7-B6A1-4002-90DA-F232F867ACE1@yahoo.ca> From: "James A. Robinson" Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 20:33:59 +0000 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=94eb2c1461ec3eed6a053dbf8411 Subject: Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities... Topicbox-Message-UUID: a1618180-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --94eb2c1461ec3eed6a053dbf8411 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 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. > --94eb2c1461ec3eed6a053dbf8411 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Yeah, and and I wonder how= the little Raspberry Pi compares to hardware that was being used for termi= nals back in the late 90s.=C2=A0 It's certainly got more memory and loc= al 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 Xp= ression Graphics
1 GB Disk (<13ms avg seek time, min. 64k cach= e); EIDE (not SCSI).
32 MB RAM
3com 3c509 combo etherne= t card

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:22 PM Chris McGee <= sirnewton_01@yahoo.ca> wrot= e:
It would be interesting to hear = how this works out in practice. The bandwidth requirement is probably so lo= w compared to typical traffic from a hotel, compared even to smart phones.<= br>
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