Uriel wrote:
I think it's already mentioned in the original papers that one of the main reason for 'cpu' servers is bandwidth/proximity to the file server(s), so I in a way it has always been a misnomer.
yeah, but ... those cpu servers, IIRC, were big 'ol power challenge machines.Big fat SMP, faster than the terminals, much more memory, etc. I remember Rob's talk at '89 usenix (or some such) and it was clear at the time that the cpu servers really were where you did computing, not on your weakling terminal.
Meant to be shared, by lots of folks, hence that ' ... big boys' comment in the startup code, reserving more kernel memory since there would be more users on a cpu than on a terminal.
life has changed. ron
