Re: Draining the Swamp: A Technical User's Experience

[Jim Gettys <Jim Gettys compaq com>]

No, that is the era before Digital UNIX: the days of VAXstations, when 
indeed people did multi-head displays for multiple users.

But it turns out, it still comes up to this day; I regularly hear
from people doing it/wanting to do it.  In any case,
the default behavior given no configuration should be to put
all the screens, keyboards and mice to a single user: to split things
up into multi-user systems should be the case which requires work.
				- Jim


> 
> Actually, it happened more in those days than these days.   In those
> days, a unix workstation cost $20K and the salesmen always figured
> if they could attach 2 or 3 mice, 2 or 3 keyboards, 2 or 3 monitors,
> (w/ 50 foot cables) then the cost per user would be $20K / (2 or 3).
> Now that unix pc's are cheap, this issue doesn't come up.
> 


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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
Hewlett-Packard Company
Jim Gettys hp com