486 Machines Re:Re: luau digest: November 17, 2001

[epsas at inflicted.net]

You are mistaken.  It is far more efficient to use a 10mbit machine as an 
X-Server with remote X-Clients than as a VNC terminal to an X framebuffer.


On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:34:27PM -0500, MonMotha wrote:
> 100mbit on a 486?  Doubtful unless they have a PCI bus (which was very 
> rare among 486s).  I've only seen one 100mbit ISA card, made by 3com. 
> However, you could possibly use VNC instead of just straigt up X remote 
> display and get a thin client job accomplished nicely in 10mbit.
> 
> --MonMotha
> 
> Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 06:09, bmusson wrote:
> > 
> >>No, This will be more like "Hey what am I going to do with all these 486's".
> >>That was the challenge
> >>we presented him. Cluster 8-486 machines together to see what the result
> >>would look like.
> >>(Beside I needed to figure out what to do with all
> >>this stuff!)
> >>
> >>Bill
> >>
> > 
> > What are the hardware specs on the 486's?  If they have reliable 100Mbit
> > network cards and at least 2MB of video RAM, they could probably be
> > converted into Linux thin clients.
> > 
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