Re: How does Citrix run it faster? was Re: Microfocus COBOL 3.2.43 (16bit)

Ah no - I meant Citrix.

It does of course, use terminal services for licensing, but it does not use
the Microsoft RDP line protocol. We actually have P233;s with 128mb of RAM
out there, sharing a single VPN tunnel over a DSL line with four or five
other similar users, that run quite a bit faster than local 1.8ghz P4
machines. Faster for all the users connected to the machine.

Yes, we do have some killer servers in there now - four of them to be exact.

But up until March we were running on two dual processor 1.3ghz PIII Compaq
DL360 machines I paid about $3K each for. And they ran flawlessly for three
years. The new machines are much faster IBM Blades, but we bought them to
support four to five times the number of users we currently have on them;
the extra speed is hardly noticed by the users. Word may come up in 4/10ths
of second instead of 8/10ths.

If you have 30 years with UNIX machines Richard, you should be aware of this
kind of stuff, since it has been handily demonstrated time and time again on
Sun and Dec workstations.

-Paul

"Richard" <riplin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Clark F Morris wrote:

How does Citrix run Office faster?

First off he probably means TSE. Citrix did build a special version of
NT 3.51* but when MS saw that this was making revenue they refused to
update the source code supplied to Citrix to NT 4 and released their
own 'Citrix' as TSE in order to make that revenue their own. Citrix
then could only apply a few add-ons for TSE.

Given a P233 with 128Mb, mode 4 IDE and NT2000 or so as a workstation
then it is likely that using it to connect over 100Mbit network to a
quad P3.2GHz processor with a few GBytes of RAM and SCSI or SATA2
drives would make it 'run' quicker than a local version would.


*previously Citrix had built multi-user versions of OS/2



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