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From: mac@esl.UUCP (Mike McNamara)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Hardware vendors distributing emacs
Message-ID: <504@esl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 13:24:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  7 13:24:32 1987
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Reply-To: mac@esl.UUCP (Mike McNamara)
Organization: ESL, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA.
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Encore Computer distributes GNU with it's machines, along with a little
lisp program that uses their terminal server, the Annex, to provide some
of the character manipulation, instead of loading the mainframe.  The Annex
will provide this function for any TCP/IP based machine; (No need to buy
an Encore, just get the Annex).  They are pretty cheap ($6000 for 16 terminal
support, 3 sessions per terminal, plus a parrallel printer port).

We used it as a great way to offload our ageing vaxes: Put every one on
the terminal servers, teach them GNU, and rip out the 8 DZ's from the
vax. 

	-mac
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 Michael Mc Namara                 
 ESL Incorporated                 
 ARPA: mac%esl@lll-lcc.ARPA