rudedog, $4-500 PCs are cool and everything, but it's not quite the same. If they include the monitor, it's a $100 monitor equivalent or something, right? Video, I just got a couple S3 virge 4meg cards for $25 a crack. Maybe inadequate for the Quake crowd, but plenty good for most business use. Keyboard and mouse, $20 together. Though USB ain't so cheap.
You have to deal with software setup and presumably running NT, true. But then, with 2 cheap PCs (the kind business has been slow to adopt, anyway) you got the alternative of keeping 2 Win9x systems running, which has its own TCO issues. The 2-headed computer is efficient in many ways, a lot of stuff that's mostly idle in a single user is slightly less idle. And you have one copy of all the code in memory instead of two, and one copy on disk. People would have to be careful about screen savers, though. And again, Microsoft would have to do something to make it "revenue neutral", or is my understanding of what WTS licensing is going to be like wrong?
I'm glad to hear it's technically doable, inside Redmond at least. I imagine there's a few of those nonexistent "secret apis" involved, eh?
Cheers, Dan.
P.S. Sorry for the (mild I hope) sarcasm. I think WTS is in general a good idea and all, but again, coming from the Unix/X world, it doesn't seem like something that should be limited to the ultra-expensive high margin server business. I'm really interested in any information or clarification you'd like to give on where WTS is going. |
