sorensen@athena.mit.edu (Alma G. Sorensen) (10/14/89)
Howdy. I recall a few months back, there was a discussion of X-terminals versus diskless workstations versus diskful workstations. I don't want to get that started again, but I do remember a posting from someone at Athena that basically said, "We at Athena don't think diskless machines are the way to go." I remember this person's reasoning being particularly salient; would that person (whose name I recognized at the time but can't recall) mind e-mailing me his/her rationale? Sorry for wasting net bandwidth, but it's important to convince a group of people I work with. I wouldn't mind receiving other rational viewpoints as well, especially re the benefits of local disks, for either storage or swap space. Thanks, Greg Sorensen sorensen@athena.mit.edu