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From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: '386 Unix Wars
Keywords: sco unix interactive wars
Message-ID: <1991Jan03.002628.10152@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 3 Jan 91 00:26:28 GMT
References: <1990Dec20.233843.28559@nstar.rn.com> <1990Dec21.223449.14660@unixland.uucp> <1990Dec22.134904.25395@nstar.rn.com> <1990Dec23.122201.3819@unixland.uucp>
Organization: Northern Star Communications, Ltd.
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bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:

>Larry, what kind of video hardware are you using to provide adequate
>performance in X?  I don't use X much myself, because this little Multisync
>II (14") and ATI VGA Wonder (only supported to 640*480 in Esix X) just don't
>cut it -- too small and too slow on re-draw.

I have an ATI VGA wonder with 512K - and Interactive X supports
800*600 on my NEC 3D.i

>What made you decide to start offering shell access, Larry?  A while back
>you mentioned that you were concerned about the potential security risk
>here.

I would like to offer shell accounts - so folks can use nn (and trn
if I get it installed) - but I haven't had the time to "secure" the
system - maybe sometime in the near future I will have time to make
the system secure --


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