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From: david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: turning Sun 3/50s into X seats
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Date: 28 May 90 21:05:24 GMT
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In article <1990May24.165439.12653@ctr.columbia.edu>,
seth@ctr.columbia.edu (Seth Robertson) writes:
|>You can turn Suns (any Sun, but Sun 3/50s are probably the only ones
|>that you would care about) into X terminals.  As X terminals, they are
|>fast since they don't need to swap and the 68020 is only processing X
|>events and doing kernel things.
|>
|>It also saves space since you only need 1.7 MB of space for any number of
|>machines running Xkernel. Xkernel is available for anonymous ftp from
|>sol.ctr.columbia.edu [128.59.64.40] Please try to avoid working hours
|>(10-7 EDT)

An option for people who want to keep clients running locally is to
run the Xtool server from Xgraph (sorry; no phone number handy). Xtool
implements an X server as a SunView client and runs very quickly in
the SunView environment.  The demos I saw at Xhibition90 were very good.
Technical details, including some impressive [though somewhat arrogantly=
presented] performance statistics, are in the conference proceedings for
that show.

           
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