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From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga as an X terminal (was "Memory and the A2024 Hedley monitor")
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Date: 6 Sep 88 16:02:42 GMT
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In article <665@super.ORG> rminnich@metropolis.UUCP (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
>P.S. Personal opinion: Somebody oughta be able to make a pile of dough
>     by bundling together and selling amigas as 'X terminals'. I hope
>     somebody does.

In order to be a reasonably usable X terminal, it would need an Ethernet
interface.  Those are still rather expensive, even for the 2000.  And to
put one on a 500 would cost even more, because one would need a Zorro II
slot.

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>