At 08:09 PM 1/3/95 GMT, Eero Laurila wrote:
>Isaac Blake ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>: connections...  Further, I question how VT will play against Telnet...
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>As a bottom line -- and this is all my opinion - not reflecting any of
>my employer's -- I would expect that a high-end 3000 - say 995 with
>a few CPU's should be able to handle all 1250 max currently supported
>number of VT-sessions plus another 1000 DTC sessions with relative ease.
 
Yes, VT is better.  But what works with it? is it any kind of standard
protocol?  I doubt you will have 1250 telnet logons running vi.  If you
deliver any kind of application via telnet you could design it to scale the
resources at hand.
 
Give the customer standard open solutions (and sell them bigger
machines...but that darn software pricing hinders buying more CPU power to
overcome a specific problem, such as host telnet.  So what do you do?  sell
add on hardware and don't change the model - ugly!  The real problem is
model immobility, not the telnet protocol!)
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