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From: casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: GraphOn OptiMax 200 X terminal questions and answers
Keywords: X11, X terminals, high speed modems
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Date: 12 Nov 89 01:19:47 GMT
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| From: ekrell@ulysses.att.com (Eduardo Krell)
| 
| The GraphOn GO-235 (from which I'm typing this message) has the same 13"
| screen but a resolution of 1024 x 792.

  Sounds a little hard to read, but I'm certainly glad GraphOn is
offering a larger pixel map display.  I wonder how hard it would be to
get a larger screen with that?

| > The display number is therefore the name of your machine:N.  The latest
| > software starts trying N at 1 and works it's way up.
| 
| The latest version of the software starts with N == your uid, which makes
| more sense.

  Nope.  I've got a later version (BETA) than you do.

  And it makes more sense to start at one and work your way up.  If your
uid is a large integer, then 6000 + uid could very well extend out of the
reserved TCP port space for X displays.  I can't find a reference to how
many ports are reserved - does anyone know?

  Even if there is no maximum (an unbelievable concept) using uids would
needlessly scatter server ports across a large chunk of the TCP port
space.  For instance, we use employee numbers here for uids in order to
guarantee unique uids across all of our NFS servers.  My uid happens to
be 5218.  Using that for my display number would mean the server would
use TCP port 11218.

  Finally, if you have a standard login account for use by multiple
logins, you'd get an immediate display number collision.

Casey