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From: root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga as an X terminal (was "Memory and the A2024 Hedley monitor")
Summary: Ethernet
Message-ID: <1560@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 88 20:41:05 GMT
References: <8808060100.AA11069@jade.berkeley.edu> <3550@cadnetix.COM> <1859@kalliope.rice.edu>
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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In article <1859@kalliope.rice.edu>, phil@titan.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.

	Dale Luck's X port for the Amiga uses Ameristar's Ethernet 
	product.  The package costs the same as equivalent HW/SW in the
	PC marketplace, eg Sun PC-NFS.  Ameristar has shown a combo
	2-8 mByte memory board/Ethernet interface for the A500; it most
	assuredly DOES NOT need Zorro II slots.

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

					Rick Spanbauer
					Ameristar Technology