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From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
Cc: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>, COFF <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: the wheel of reincarnation goes sideways
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 18:34:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W69JfX4HBknZ8xEZ4chSiqzwco+681SZ93brodzAiuuxg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZA+gxAePDMWK6StD@straylight.ringlet.net>

I don't know if a thousand users ever logged in there at one time, but
they do tend to have a lot of simultaneous logins.

On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 6:16 PM Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 02:52:43PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
> > [bumping to COFF]
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 2:05 PM ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The wheel of reincarnation discussion got me to thinking:
> [snip]
> > > The evolution of platforms like laptops to becoming full distributed systems continues.
> > > The wheel of reincarnation spins counter clockwise -- or sideways?
> >
> > About a year ago, I ran across an email written a decade or more prior
> > on some mainframe mailing list where someone wrote something like,
> > "wow! It just occurred to me that my Athlon machine is faster than the
> > ES/3090-600J I used in 1989!" Some guy responded angrily, rising to
> > the wounded honor of IBM, raving about how preposterous this was
> > because the mainframe could handle a thousand users logged in at one
> > time and there's no way this Linux box could ever do that.
> [snip]
> > For that matter, a
> > thousand users probably _could_ telnet into the Athlon system. With
> > telnet in line mode, it'd probably even be decently responsive.
>
> sdf.org (formerly sdf.lonestar.org) comes to mind...
>
> G'luck,
> Peter
>
> --
> Peter Pentchev  roam@ringlet.net roam@debian.org pp@storpool.com
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-13 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAP6exY+05fStBtpZGd2HeeNf21fNXeKUTwBV0h5-1YczwF+tew@mail.gmail.com>
2023-03-08 19:52 ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] " Dan Cross
2023-03-08 20:18   ` [COFF] " Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via COFF
2023-03-09  1:22   ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] " John Cowan
2023-03-09 19:55     ` Dan Cross
2023-03-09 20:09       ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-11 20:32         ` Dan Cross
2023-03-11 23:28       ` Bakul Shah
     [not found]   ` <ZA+gxAePDMWK6StD@straylight.ringlet.net>
2023-03-13 22:34     ` Dan Cross [this message]
2023-07-05 21:48       ` Dan Cross
2023-07-05 23:58         ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-07-06  1:02           ` Dave Horsfall
2023-07-06 16:47             ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-07-06  2:35           ` Dan Cross
2023-07-06  4:18           ` Robert Stanford via COFF
2023-07-06 16:53             ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-07-06 17:54               ` Adam Thornton
2023-07-09 14:55           ` Michael Parson
2023-08-01  9:52             ` Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
2023-08-01  9:49         ` Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
2023-08-01 15:55           ` Dan Cross
2023-08-01 16:27             ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-08-02 16:07               ` Dan Cross
2023-08-02 20:58                 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-08-02 21:16                   ` Dan Cross

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