[comp.windows.x] X terminals vs. Workstations

dsamperi@Citicorp.COM (Dominick Samperi) (06/21/91)

I'm sure the X terminal/Workstation question has been discussed in this
news group before. Could somebody send me a copy of the discussion?
The question is: what is the best choice and for what kind of user,
an X terminal or a workstation? There seem to be many tradeoffs: X terminals
are cheaper, but provide no local compute power. Workstations provide
local compute power and protect power users from each other, yet they
typically have slower disks than a large server, and there is also
an NFS hit when links are done against libs on a central server. Software
vendors want more money from workstation users, etc....
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Dominick Samperi -- Citicorp
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