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From: greg@xios.XIOS.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A different View of the value of OS/2 - it's better than UNIX
Message-ID: <389@xios.XIOS.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 15:49:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: xios.389
Posted: Fri Sep 25 15:49:47 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 30-Sep-87 02:48:47 EDT
References: <494@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <2944@hoptoad.uucp> <497@parcvax.Xerox.COM>
Reply-To: greg@sdn.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Organization: XIOS Systems Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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In article <497@parcvax.Xerox.COM> burton@parcvax.xerox.com.UUCP (Philip M. Burton) writes:
>Another fundamental problem was highlighted by Bill Gates at a recent
>meeting of the Silicon Valley Computer Society recently.  UNIX has a model of
>dumb terminals communicating via serial lines to a host.  DOS and OS/2 assume
>a much tighter linkage.
>
>How many serial line-connected UNIX machines actually support bit-mapped
>graphics?  

Actually, SUN has an answer.  Get yourself an EL-CHEAPO Atari ST.  Toss
in some custom software - namely a postscript display processor.  (Toss
out GEM etc).  Connect it to your SUN and voila.  I don't even think you
need anything more elaborate than an RS232 line.

I haven't seen one personally :-( - I would like to give one a whirl!

See comp.sys.atari.st for other bits of trivia.




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