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Re: [f-cpu] Re: Display Terminal Clusters
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Richard E. Hartny wrote:
> I couldn't let it pass!!!!!!!!!
> Juergen Goeritz stated----
>
> forget it! in the time of networking it's useless to focus
> on display terminals at all. you just need a single display!
> Only if you go for real-time cluster 3D simulation in some
> flight simulators or weather simulators will be more than a
> single display involved'
>
> And please stop your announcements on this mailing list now,
> Thank you
>
> JG
>
> And further;
>
> Look at Richard, he thinks the display is the center of all.
> He is misleaded too. He just sees it from his application.
>
> And my response is --------bullshit to both of your uneducated responses.
Seufz. Sorry to have scratched your pride.
> The number of terminals in any system is guided by the Processor performance,
I am more thinking in distributed systems with a lot of computation
on a lot of nodes using pipelined or parallel processing. Most of
the problems I work on are flow through problems for real-time or
optimization stuff. The user interface is only for administrative
and management purposes in my work.
But I worked with 32 terminals on a normal UN*X machine in the 1980's.
It worked well for the ttys without a lot of processer performance
compared to todays performance.
> if you don't want the user (people) to wait for data responses. Most are presently unhappy with Novel networking because of WAIT time with peak user requests.
> I have addressed the unhappy ones with the design of the ERIN32 -- an M2M architecture. That is exactly where the f-cpu was at its inception quite some time ago. And the f-cpu is targeted toward Game Machines (single user) and Flight Simulators, and Weather simulators - very high performance stuff. I am targeting the World of Business where more than one terminal is required.
> I stated all of the above before you entered the scene - Yann Guidon knows this as well as others.
> Since all of my designs use SCHEMATIC input and f-cpu is VHDL, the only help I can be is to provide what I have - if requested.
How about a bottleneck analysis of the applications instead?
I never said that using a window system is the best. I still
prefer to read and write ASCII on a tty and I know that the
LPT/COM/Keyboard I/O handling in a PC is long outdated. ;-)
> I will continue to provide tidbits of information to f-cpu whether you like it or not.
SOS (sound of silence).
JG
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