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Re: Thoughts on quickstations

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jun 19 14:46:21 2000

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To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:02:34 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 14:46:05 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>

> What do people think of something like this?

Sounds cool.

There may be simpler ways to adequately speed up quickstation logins,
though, e.g. by making the quickstations PCs.  Which I think is in the
works.  (Linux seems to have faster AFS and also has all the Athena
software local, which will include gnome when it's part of the actual
release.)

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