> Everyone in here is nostalgic for Sun Rays. Maybe here, but in other discussions surrounding Sun Rays there were decidedly mixed sentiments. > The latency e

> Everyone in here is nostalgic for Sun Rays. Maybe here, but in other discussions surrounding Sun Rays there were decidedly mixed sentiments. > The latency even just across a couple of floors, was terrible. That sounds odd. In my experience, latency over public Internet (using the built-in Cisco compatible VPN client) across town was perfectly usable (much better than VNC over SSH using Linux hosts). The protocol they are using tries hard to minimizes the effects of network latency. > several hundred users trying to use them overwhelmed disk I/O, network throughput, and memory capacity. Yeah, that's much easier to see. Imagine thin clients being used these days with servers having many dozen GiB of RAM and NVMe storage ... > We had to log in in staggered blocks, with 5-minute gaps between groups of 20 or so people inserting their cards. I dimly recall having read about such. I wonder, whether that ever got fixed. > Moving from ancient vector-graphics GIS tools to Google Earth blew my mind though... Yeah, Sun Rays weren't a good fit for 3d graphics nor movies (which wasn't much an issue twenty years ago, but won't do today). Sun (Oracle?) produced an video clip advertising their use in a hospital. That (and call centers) is were they could have shined. > edit: literally never, ever, did anyone need the ability to pull their card out, walk over to another person's desk, and say, "Well hey Jim take a look at this!" and move their session. Moving between "data center" (next to the office), office and home and taking my session with me, made my work (mostly performance tests then) easier. Never got to yank out someone else's smard-card and session though, as I was the only one using those ;-}