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From: tlarson@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Ted E. Bear)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Making a PC an X-Terminal....
Message-ID: <27f818aa.31ff@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 2 Apr 91 05:37:46 GMT
Reply-To: tlarson@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Ted E. Bear)
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Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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    Here is what I want to do:
            I would like to find an X server that will run
    under PC-DOS so that we can connect a PC to a Sun Sparcstation
    to run the client programs.  All the CPU of the client would
    be on the Sparcstation and not on the PC.  The PC simply formats
    the graphics, etc.  The PC is a 386 w/VGA, so it could in theory
    handle the graphics intesity of X.  It would turn my PC into a
    sort-of X terminal onto the SPARC.  Ideally, I would like to run 
    this over a 38400 serial link to the SPARC, but if it is totally
    impossible, an ethernet connection could be made to the SPARC.

    Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could make this dream
    a reality?  I have heard that there are some software vendors that
    sell packages that do something similar to what I am describing, but
    I don't know who they are or how to contact them (ie. PC-Xsight).
    What is the cheapest way to solve this?  Are there any public
    domain packages that will do it?

                    - Ted   | tlarson@polyslo.calpoly.edu
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