Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!unido!laura!heike!klute From: klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Is there an X-Client for the ST? Message-ID: <1990Aug21.081216@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> Date: 21 Aug 90 06:12:16 GMT References: <1990Aug20.163330.17619@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@laura.UUCP Reply-To: klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) Organization: University of Dortmund, FRG Lines: 18 In article <1990Aug20.163330.17619@agate.berkeley.edu>, ericco@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu writes: |> I noticed in your article that you don't think that an X server on the ST |> would work over a modem. Why not? Have you seen the X-terminals that are |> widely available? They use a Sun4 as the host, and they have |> optimized the transmission lines. Of course X will work over a modem. There's the SLIP package allowing it to do so. The problem is whether *you* will be able to work with it. Users expect reasonable response times today. -- Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute klute@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Univ. Dortmund, IRB klute@unido.uucp, klute@unido.bitnet Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663 D-4600 Dortmund 50 |\|\ Fax : +49 231 755-2386