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From: hermit@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Gotta report this
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Date: 11 Mar 91 08:16:25 GMT
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In article <1991Mar7.031117.19745@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
|In article <1991Mar5.151632.13860@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
|consp24@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (consp24) writes:
|>>Overheard in my office today:
|>>"D'ya think an X-Windows terminal for the C64 would go down well?"
|>> - Matthew Desmond (of DesTerm fame)
|>Maybe an Xterm for the 128 in interlace mode, though....
|
|Uhhh, guys... I hate to burst your bubble but what precisely is Desmond
|suggesting?  To get X-Windows, you need TCP services.  Otherwise, all
|you have is a fancy windowing VT100.  I can't see what you'd gain from
|that.

Aah, but what about SLIP?

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