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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: X on a VT220?
Message-ID: <1759@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 09:01:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: lsuc.1759
Posted: Thu Apr 30 09:01:29 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 1-May-87 02:27:52 EDT
References: <545682039.rfb@h.cs.cmu.edu>
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Summary: Cheap terminals

In article <545682039.rfb@h.cs.cmu.edu> Rick.Busdiecker@H.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
>    

...

>How cheap is cheap?  In other words, what's the cheapest thing that one
>could buy to use as a bitmap terminal to run X applications using a
>modem to a Vax or RT?


     For 640 * 400 monochrome you could use the Atari 520ST.  You should
be able to put a fairly good terminal into a ROM cartridge.  For more
versatility, you could an Atari 1040ST.  That way you could run some of
TOS software locally and have some local storage.

     for 640 * 196 (4 Color display) you could run a Radio Shack Color
Computer.

     The new Amiga 500 would also make a nice "terminal".  Like the 1040ST
it has a contained floppy which makes for less clutter.

Cheers! -- Jim O.

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