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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: Age of the Hand Held
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Date: 6 Dec 90 02:00:50 GMT
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Lindsay Patten writes:

> On the other hand the X terminal can be viewed as an easy to use interface
> to centralized resources.  Not everyone wants to deal with all the hassles
> of running their own workstation.

While this is true, there are more efficient technologies that provide the
same remote capability such as NeWS or AT&T's DMD line of smart windowing
terminals. But now you have the local terminal, while being completely
diskless, doing a significant amount of local processing instead of just
displaying bits received over the net.

Peter da Silva


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