On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Howard Gibson wrote:

As far as a central computer is concerned, there is no free lunch.

No, but you can get a discounted lunch. Copy-on-write pages, more efficient use of cpu (on a single user box the cpu is largely idle), etc, allow for far far more efficient use of system resources. Rob -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org, zzbrock at uqconnect.net Linux counter project ID #16440 (http://counter.li.org) "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" -Baha'u'llah -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml