[alt.religion.computers] Quote from new book

guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (01/25/91)

Well, there's a bit of an oversimplification there.  Remember, there's
also Gnot<->disk server traffic, since a Gnot is *(g)not* a Blit; it's
a, well, diskless workstation, with a real virtual memory OS (basically
the same one as runs on the compute servers) that supports access to a
file system.  Editors can run, in their entirety, on a Gnot (they can
also run, in their entirety, on a compute server, as far as I can tell,
but I think they typically run on the Gnot). 

Since the Gnot won't be running as many applications as a diskless
workstation in a more typical workstation/file server configuration,
you'll probably have less file access traffic over the network, but the
situation isn't identical to that in the Blit/timesharing machine or
X-terminal/timesharing machine case.

>		V9: the kernel where you can do
>			fgrep <something> */*.[ch]
>		and not get "Arguments too long".

(Well, *one* of the kernels where you can do that, anyway.  I've yet to
run out of the 1MB of arguments I get with SunOS 4.x, although if you
use the C shell, *it* might impose a more stringent restriction.)