Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!math.lsa.umich.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!hyc From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: ATARI's current line Message-ID: <1991Feb6.224820.21619@math.lsa.umich.edu> Date: 6 Feb 91 22:48:20 GMT References: <1991Jan29.230448.10573@cs.ucla.edu> <4105@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> Sender: usenet@math.lsa.umich.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor Lines: 35 In article jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca writes: > I'm pretty sure the internal harddrive on the STe is an imbedded >SCSI drive plugged directly to the computer, so there is scsi there. >Whether it was brought out the back of the computer or not, sorry, I >didn't look. Ilike the concept behind the Mega STe1. It's basically >a dealer configuable box, as the cost on 256k simms appearantly is >about 3.00$. Now if someone could come out with a board which used >a bunch of 256k simms to make a 4 meg board that fit the 4 simm >slots, there'd be a use for all those excess simms....... That's not a bad idea... As long as there's physical space available. >>Actually, the Mega STE _does_ have the Localtalk port. It's labeled "LAN" > A friend of mine is looking for an X Terminal package which supports >the rs232 port on the ST and doesn't have to be purchased with a lan >board of any sort. Does anyone know of a company that supplys this? How many X packages are there, anyway? Only a couple, last I heard. Would probably work very well using serial IP at 230kbps.... > I was looking through a book on programming for X, and it seems that >the primitives look a lot like VDI calls. An interesting project would >be an X terminal package that mapped the X communications to a Gem window. Well, there's a company marketing a product called XVT, which is a higher layer library that maps graphics calls into MS Windows, Mac Windows, and X. You might look into talking with the company and getting GEM supported. (It sounds like a good idea, so you only have to write one version of a program, no #ifdef's or anything, just compile it on each target system and go...) -- -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan Flame all you want - we'll take more.