Re: Four York****remen and 64 gig memory

In article <1190374842.418400.136560@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
   J de Boyne Pollard <j.deboynepollard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>CFM> On a home computer, providing the equivalent of SMF data
>CFM> would be a waste.
>
>JdeBP> It's unlikely that one would be billing the users of a
>JdeBP> personal computer for resource usage, for example.
>
>j> Come again?!!!  You haven't been noticing online gaming
>experiments.
>
>"Come again?"  All right, here it is again, in the hope that it will
>be read properly and in context this time:
>
>It's unlikely that one would be billing the users of a personal
>computer for resource usage, for example.  

I think it's highly likely.  Coders would love to bill for
each time their EXEs are run.  Data packages can be "rented"
out or outright sold.  That's already getting done with spam.
European charging has been based on message units.  Think about
the comm centers in each house with this in mind.  


>But there are other uses
>for such data.  As such, providing them is not wholly a waste.  Multi-
>user PC operating systems such as Linux and Windows NT have various
>event logging and accounting mechanisms aimed at, and used for,
>satisfying exactly such needs.

I haven't looked at Unix's accounting.  I would assume that NT 
has similar data that DEC had in its OSes.  It's very primitive
and only the rare duck who is willing to slough along for years
would be willing to do any of that boring work.

/BAH