Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:36:22 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: linux as a minicomputer ? |
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Alan Cox wrote: >>Oh yes, but the *expensive* part of the machine -- the multiprocessor >>box -- isn't. > > If you need SMP (frequently doubtful) its a price, but dual celeron and > dual duron are cheap if you buy them from sensible vendors. > >>Also, when using massmarket systems of more than 2 or 3 monitors you >>start having cabling problems. VGA connectors aren't impedance matched >>and cause nasty reflections at high resolutions, so they don't extend >>well. I guess digital video is coming, but is not yet mass market. > > Indeed and most of it is not specced for long distances. It will also no > doubt be held up even more now the encryption on the wire wants to be augmented > by the newer watermarking stuff so the monitor won't show movies without > authorization >
If you're talking about things like setting up multiheaded UP and dual-processor machines for, say, an undergraduate lab in a university, then I think you're probably on the right track -- *especially* if the alternative would be using X-terminals (gack!!!) to leech the CPU power anyway.
Otherwise, I think that's probably the main "minicomputeresque" form of Linux usage -- remote X display.
-hpa
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