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From: wm@ogccse.ogc.edu (Wm Leler)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.windows.news,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X and/or NeWS terminals
Keywords: X, NeWS, terminals
Message-ID: <1811@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Date: 9 Oct 88 17:11:55 GMT
References: <178@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> <324@pvab.UUCP>
Reply-To: wm@ogccse.UUCP (Wm Leler)
Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR
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>> Ok, I have seen some discussion about X terminals and have even seen
>> some actual hardware but I haven't seen much talk about a NeWS
>> terminal.  Does anyone know of such a beast?
>
>> I would guess that NeWS would even run better than X in this
>> configuration because of the smaller amount of data that needs to go
>> across the link.

There are some people at Queen Mary College (part of University
College of London? -- in the UK) that are working on an
inexpensive NeWS terminal.  Their hardware is transputer based,
not for the parallelism, per se, but for the raw speed, low cost,
and other advantages of the transputer.  They want to make it
cheap enough so that one might buy it for home and run it over
a 2400 baud phone line, but it also includes ethernet.

William Roberts at QMC also has an archive of interesting NeWS
and PostScript software.  He was the original author of the
"eye that tracks the mouse position" demo (among other things).

Of course, any workstation that runs NeWS could be used as a
NeWS terminal (such as a Sun, Cogent XTM, Silicon Graphics
workstation, or Mac II) and given the continual decrease in
the price of workstations (well, with the exception of the
Mac :-), that might be a pretty good option soon.

wm