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From: kadie@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: NEWS over modems?
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Date: 9 Mar 88 03:59:00 GMT
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>For example: If I were to have a NEWS workstation at home with a 9600
>baud modem line how feasable is it for me to run applications such as
>editors, compilers, painting tools, desktop publishing etc. with the
>compute intensive processes on the mainframe and the graphics at home.
>I am not asking for specific answers or flames I am trying postulate

There might be a slight problem if your host is a Sun. Suntools
for the merged NeWs/X product will run under X not NeWs!

So if you try to use any of the nifty tools (mailtool, chesstool, etc)
your sun is going to be sending bitmaps across your phoneline.


Carl Kadie
Inductive Learning Group
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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