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From: dave@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Request for testers for Color X11 for Amiga
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Date: 20 Jun 89 22:20:34 GMT
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From article <19700@cup.portal.com>, by stephan@cup.portal.com (Stephen Derek Schaem):
> 
>  Dana, read my other reply and you will now why I think that way.
> I have a price of 8,000$ for a Unix workstation based on a RISC (mips), 
Flame on:
If you aren't interested in testing X for the amiga, why the hell are you
bitching about prices under that subject?
Flame off:

If you want to be cheap about Xwindows, you can probably go get something
like Dale's package down the road a ways, and get a slip (serial line ip)
handler and run X to your local unix server. This costs whatever your
current machine is plus the software package of around $400. Granted, it
would be nice to have more cpu power and a nicer monitor, but if you're like
me and just wanted X at home or something. I would imagine that slip at
38400 or so, or over a trailblazer modem wouldn't be too bad either. Someone
at usenix mentioned a T1 line to their house ;-).

If you want to be really cheap you can get Matt Dillon's Dnet package,
itself being quite nice but not X compatible.

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