Frank Cox >>> You don't need a mainframe for that. Take a look at >>> http://www.ltsp.org John Summerfield: > I don't think Tim was referring to thin clients. I wasn't. I am aware of them, and they're a middle ground in the situation I was alluding to. Yes, you'll have a more fancier terminal with a thin client, as most real dumb terminals are little more than display and keyboard. But they're a bit more admin work. > An insurance company Daughter's working for's rolling out thin > clients. She's not enthusiastic, she wants her real PC. Me, I'd rather not have individual PCs. I don't find them reliable, I don't find they're maintained well, I do find you frequently get hamstrung by something that got saved locally instead of over the network, and terminals needing reconfiguring for personalisation rather than your preferences following you around (no I don't care about pretty backgrounds, but decent readable fonts are important, etc.). -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
