Buddying Up: What to Do When You Have Two People and Only One PC

摘要

If you share a PC with your kids, you already understand the First Law of Nondistrib-uted Computing: The number of people who need to use a computer always exceeds the number of PCs available. This law typically manifests itself at night, when you have to finish a re-port due on the boss' desk at 9 a.m., while your teen-ager has to do research on the Web for a paper due by first period tomorrow.