Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!noc.sura.net!haven!ames!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!wargaski From: wargaski@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Robert E. Wargaski Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Need help finding X terminals Message-ID: <1711@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Date: 7 Dec 90 01:43:21 GMT References: <7883.275c13f3@jetson.uh.edu> Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Reply-To: wargaski@nwu.edu Organization: ACNS DSS, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Lines: 66 In article <7883.275c13f3@jetson.uh.edu>, hista@jetson.uh.edu writes: |> |> Hi netters, |> |> We were out looking for good (& cheap) X terminals, and need |> some advice in the matter. First of all, if there are any suggestions |> to the effect -- including contacts and prices. |> We just had a demo machine from the GraphOn Corporation. I believe we had the low end model, for it only had a serial port (the higher end model(s) have ethernet connections). I was rather impressed with the performance of the machine---it only took about 20 seconds from login time (one runs the X setup stuff from the prompt) to production time with windows. When a new window application is run (e.g. xrn), the window outline would come up right away, but it would take a few seconds more for the application to be ready to use. The slowest speed at which we ran it was 9600 bps via modem (which was not, incidentally, much slower than running it at 9600 bps directly connected to the machine)---it wasn't -too- bad. 19.2 Kbps directly connected was much better. The machine we had had a smallish window, but it had a virtual desktop in the vertical direction. In other words, one could scroll the desktop from top to bottom, to get about 700 x 920 pixels. I don't know the price, but the professor for whom I set it up said it only cost about $1000.00. Hope this info is useful. Rob Wargaski BTW, here's the info from `whois graphon.com': casbah.acns % whois graphon.com GraphOn Corporation (GRAPHON-DOM) 1980 Concourse Drive San Jose, CA 95131 Domain Name: GRAPHON.COM Administrative Contact: Thaker, Malay (MT130) MT@GRAPHON.COM (408) 435-8400 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Croke, Darren (DC346) DC@GRAPHON.COM (408) 435-8400 Record last updated on 16-May-90. Domain servers in listed order: UUNET.UU.NET 192.48.96.2 seismo.CSS.GOV 192.12.141.25 No known hosts under this secondary domain. -- Robert E. Wargaski Jr. This is stupid. -- Vila wargaski@nwu.edu When did that ever stop us. -- Avon ACNS DSS, Northwestern University Moooo!