From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FROM,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 4356 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2023 22:35:24 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 13 Mar 2023 22:35:24 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8A8F41600; Tue, 14 Mar 2023 08:35:21 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-lf1-x12f.google.com (mail-lf1-x12f.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::12f]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6D014415FD for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2023 08:35:17 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-lf1-x12f.google.com with SMTP id f18so17680273lfa.3 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:35:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; t=1678746915; h=content-transfer-encoding:cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=Wd25DLS1/1+Cc0oIyfVP970N8QxjupRZFhgzdZupuN8=; b=NwMDlxXPf0ChHvv++Jk0MC1FL8PlFGCN1PEcJ6G6ya+eeDY3mVi94Qc0HRl8zv0n4y 4ccL+mGf3M3l8gs5n804MfOM8x5cDffAak0b1/bfSJtNLKpBuLG3/7Ha3fHN1XaivlG3 81pDtPF7F8uv8GFDDc96W3prwMlhF+0jZO4BHBOABHkpTdxccW/tLozm60e8IXLAPSIG 7Fdwq7XVbY133NGHoI2s9fbMyxmOtoebdwIiVsXDnaqFJ4uwQUEFGzT7oUCLeSIGk3z/ L02eaCiiG7gCSiVkub2b01un1foRSRYSqtrGXNL7liuuJwLd+QhZl8nMY4n3SKdoPPQy Dieg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; t=1678746915; h=content-transfer-encoding:cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=Wd25DLS1/1+Cc0oIyfVP970N8QxjupRZFhgzdZupuN8=; b=fM7kzMBr7qiSIbX2d+djtLo47N6fEl4K1Tx34J0HEQH3hApyyWWCrixtsOCC+fj0l7 0ynNn1hTABLTYz70yVgsXX5XjPhfQbzAtXrPMAFX5oGRBMbah+9PrQAOi1GnmjZgKBCj SPa9mKG9R6rMhnaPdrj/9co/cYayI8uPGrDEO1ZtEezy9u9hgcdbW/CruMMlMh6YiRhU A8ML9p4Z6LUbWevpopObWdxnoZQiYQs0aZ+YgnSd5evRaUJGttJ7AeOObPUbhXsyCegk 3rmE/LQ/1OxgLYQVj8mbB+G1I+KJCKBd4ZbKuZULIecCGxBipOVqJCuwV6layGK95bMi 35Zg== X-Gm-Message-State: AO0yUKXN4K62uuhQVLstqpyjd3L3ta9JX6fQjs62JZFS9/MV0W9FzQ6b dXOmPLUPXina+m+2MklvfGEicuZXh9MSl9JfogA= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AK7set+iCFC5An4dxcJJrDBfp5KRVi3ltvFIEVR4dWaUgAtz4GNLnKqGVdV0AO1vmlg1bF/w2KHzJZUqnjmX5EdP060= X-Received: by 2002:a19:ee15:0:b0:4d5:ca32:7bc5 with SMTP id g21-20020a19ee15000000b004d5ca327bc5mr34035lfb.12.1678746915259; Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:35:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Dan Cross Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 18:34:38 -0400 Message-ID: To: Peter Pentchev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID-Hash: NGCQP46Q4W3MCPB6RRGTBPT3EACKRRZB X-Message-ID-Hash: NGCQP46Q4W3MCPB6RRGTBPT3EACKRRZB X-MailFrom: crossd@gmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: ron minnich , COFF X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: the wheel of reincarnation goes sideways List-Id: Computer Old Farts Forum Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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=E2=80=AFPM Peter Pentchev w= rote: > > On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 02:52:43PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote: > > [bumping to COFF] > > > > On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 2:05=E2=80=AFPM ron minnich = 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 > PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc > Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13