Subj : Re: Halt and Catch Fire
To   : Nightfox
From : Moondog
Date : Sat May 07 2022 12:56:00

  Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
  By: Nightfox to Moondog on Fri May 06 2022 02:41 pm

 >   Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
 >   By: Moondog to Nightfox on Fri May 06 2022 11:32 am
 > 
 >  Mo> Wehn I worked in nuclear power generation, my boss had been there since
 >  Mo> the plant went online in 1978. Computer Science and Services was a subs
 >  Mo> from the Instrumentation and Controls department. His boss bought 3
 >  Mo> desktops and upper management freaked out. They were considered less
 >  Mo> useful than a terminal because they couldn't connect to anything, and
 >  Mo> wereway less powerful than a mainframe. It took several years before mi
 >  Mo> were changed. 15 years ago they replaced most of their computers with a
 >  Mo> thin client environment, then recently went back to desktops due to
 >  Mo> downfalls in having a terminal server being a critical point of failure
 > 
 > With the online and cloud apps being developed these days, I think it's a li
 > g online software again.
 > 
 > Nightfox
 > 
Unless you are doing something hardware intensive such as gaming, video
editing or 3d modeling or cad.  Served apps are the way to go.  No worries
about software patches at the server end.  That was one of the nice things
about thin and zero clients.  We had a few very intelligent, yet sometime
clueless engineers that would not read who emails are from or weigh in their
minds if an emal seemed odd, and would click on aatachments they think are
pdf or other documents, then suddenly get a notice their session is infected.
 Luckily with thin sessions, you can close that session and the virus is
gone.

Downsides are bandwidth and enough memory and cpu utilization set aside to
run everything

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