Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!snorkelwacker!spdcc!merk!alliant!linus!eachus From: eachus@aries.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Amiga 500 X server (was: Re: X Windows on AT&T DMD's and Blits?) Message-ID: Date: 6 Dec 89 15:58:03 GMT References: <3482@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <303@nap1.cds.wpafb.af.mil> <40614@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Organization: The Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA Lines: 37 In-reply-to: casey@gauss.llnl.gov's message of 5 Dec 89 21:33:17 GMT | From: staatsvr@asdcds.UUCP (Vern Staats) | | "Without your Ethernet connection, Dave, | I'm afraid you'll find that a bit difficult" :-) | | Seriously, I think the Amiga 500 would make a great (medium-res) X terminal, | but the only way I can think of to get ethernet would be to use an A2000 | ethernet card in an expansion box. The 3rd party expansion boxes shouldn't | be anywhere near as flaky on an A500 as they are on the A1000, still I've | yet to hear of anyone actually doing it. If anyone has seen an Amiga 500 | running X (either over ethernet or SLIP) please drop me a line. To answer the actual question here, yes it's been done (Ethernet and X on an Amiga 500 using an expansion box), but it is not something I would recommend. At current prices, the approximate $300 savings (over an Amiga 2000 based similar configuration) is not worth the additional desk clutter. Besides, once you add a hard disk and extra memory, the SYSTEM prices get even closer (but still less than other desktop systems which can be used as X servers). Now, just to make sure the message is not misread, if you want a color X server that is also a workstation, I would reccomend an Amiga 2000 with the Ethernet board, extra memory, the flickerFixer (video board which drives multisync monitors at 31KHz), and a good monitor. I prefer such a system to Sun workstations (Hmmm, maybe that's why I'm responding to this message from an Amiga rlogged -- over Ethernet -- into a Sun. :-) Robert I. Eachus -- Robert I. Eachus with STANDARD_DISCLAIMER; use STANDARD_DISCLAIMER; function MESSAGE (TEXT: in CLEVER_IDEAS) return BETTER_IDEAS is...