On Friday 07 May 2004 07:20 pm, Bupkus wrote:
> How did those old mini computers provide dumb terminals without their own
> processor?  I think it would be really cool to have one computer,
> motherboard, ps, cpu, memory, etc and three stations. My guess is today's
> hardware is powerful enough to support it.

having worked as a software specialist at DEC for 12 years before their 
demise, I can tell you it was easy with a multiuser op sys, and linux can do 
it too.

just get a multi port serial device so that there are multiple serial ports on 
the system. then configure your inittab to use getty or agetty instead of 
mingetty.

jerry

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Kevin
> Brown
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 4:50 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Linux and multi-user options
>
> >>How does one truly utilize Linux in a multi-user configuration?
> >>
> >>I know of one hardware/software solution in the Windows environment using
>
> a
>
> >>PCI card incorporating video/mouse/keyboard support. The following
> >> website presents this solution, however they don't provide Linux
> >> support.
> >>
> >>http://www.applica.com/
> >>
> >>What hardware/software solutions are there, if any, for Linux?
> >
> > Only in windows is this a big production number ...
> > That is because windows is NOT truly a multiuser system
> >
> > In linux it is ALREADY there. I do it all the time.
> > And as usual there are several ways.
> >
> > 1) the command line way:
> >
> > Just hook up all your linux systems in a LAN
> > and use ssh to go to the other box.
> > when there just run whatever application you want.
> > ssh can be set up to login without an explicit password
> >
> > for your command-line challenged folks.
> > create desktop shortcuts to run their applications
> > on the "other" box.
> >
> > for instance, create a shortcut the runs the following command:
> > ssh username@otherbox '/usr/bin/X11R6/xclock' at it will run xclock on
> > the
> >
> > other box.
> >
> > 2) have xclients login to the remote box, as opposed to logging in to
>
> their
>
> > own box.
>
> This is basically what LTSP is about.  One beefy server and some thin
> client
>
> systems.
>
> http://www.ltsp.org/
>
> Also it is possible to distribute some of the workload of LTSP using
> openMosix
> from what I understand...
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