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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga as an X terminal (was "Memory and the A2024 Hedley monitor")
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Date: 7 Sep 88 02:22:24 GMT
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In article <1859@kalliope.rice.edu> phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
|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.

I don't think so.  I  believe that Ameristar showed at Siggraph a 
slap-on-the side A500 ethernet card that it was rumored COULD list
for less than $300 according to a friend that was there.  If this were
to be true, one could get an Amiga-based "X terminal" for a little over $1000.

Rick, are you there to give some details?

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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