I remember in university having half a dozen X terminals attached to a single Sun Sparc which wasn't even as powerful as an iPhone. One high-powered SGI server had dozens of these terminals attached to it. That was how you stretched your hardware budget as far as it could go.
It's kind of amusing that we've come full circle in that regard, now using a single CPU for multiple independent sessions. At least it's not all networked X Window any more.
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I remember in university having half a dozen X terminals attached to a single Sun Sparc which wasn't even as powerful as an iPhone. One high-powered SGI server had dozens of these terminals attached to it. That was how you stretched your hardware budget as far as it could go.
It's kind of amusing that we've come full circle in that regard, now using a single CPU for multiple independent sessions. At least it's not all networked X Window any more.