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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
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 17:37:08 GMT
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In article <1859@kalliope.rice.edu> phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
>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
Oh, i don't know, there has been an awful lot of discussion over 
getting X and/or NeWS to run well over serial lines. My (limited)
understanding leads me to believe that people really want to do this,
and what people want they will somehow get. I have read that 9600 
baud gives an acceptable X performance, as long as the server (i.e. the 
500) is doing a lot of work. So xserial (heck, there's even a mailing list)
is not out of the question. 
   You can't ship bitmaps back and forth and do well, but if you have 
some xterms running and are shipping characters to them they will go over
as bytes, which is not too bad ...
ron