Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!xpiinc!dob
From: dob@xpiinc.UU.NET (David O. Bundy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X-Windows terminal from Wyse ?
Keywords: X Terminals
Message-ID: <172@xpiinc.UU.NET>
Date: 29 Sep 88 21:13:28 GMT
References: <215@ists> <16248@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <30215@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: dob@xpiinc.UUCP (David O. Bundy)
Organization: XPI Inc., Providence, R.I.
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In article <30215@bbn.COM> milliken@bbn.com (Walter Milliken) writes:
>I don't know anything about a Wyse terminal, but Visual just gave us a
>demo yesterday.  Their terminal lists for $1995, and looks fairly
>good.  It did evidence a few minor display bugs, however.  They have a
>rather nice way of handling fonts (it can get them through NFS or a
>special font server they supply to run under Unix).......
>
>---Walter

	I thought I should reply to clarify the current state of visual's
X-terminal.  It is officially called the "Visual 640 X Display Station"
or as we call it the XDS.  Just so you know who the following comments are
comming from I am the project leader for the software development of the XDS
for visual.  This is not a sell pitch put just meant to clarify the position
of the software being discussed.

	We are currently in the BETA phase cycle for the 640 XDS.  We have
been showing it since Atlanta COMDEX in May.  We were also at USENIX,
UniForum, and X'hibition.  We have been going through a rigorous BETA test
phase connecting it to many vendors machines (DEC, IBM, SUN, MIPS,
Sequent, HP, Apollo, Encore ......) and running many different applications
(Torch, Uniware and Non Standard Logics at X'hibition).

	The XDS's internal values for the colors white and black are
opposite than the majority of machines running X and this shows up problems
with applications that don't deal with white and black correctly (eg. using
functions like XOR on black and white give undeterministic results).  These
are the kinds of problems we have seen with the BETA phase with little or
none with our server.

	We have more releases before we end our BETA phase in November and
will have fixed any incompatibilities in our server by then and will be fully
X.V11R3 compatible (we are currently X.V11R2++).

	This product is meant to be the lowest cost X server platform with
the screen density (1024 x 800), performance, and memory (1-4 meg)
that people need to run X.  The pricing will fit it in the recommended range
between existing terminals and diskless workstations/PC's.

	For more information about this product or future products you
should contact:
			VISUAL Technology
			1703 Middlesex St.
			Lowell, MA 01851
			(506) 459-4903
			1-800-VISUAL-C

Dave