Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!gatech!gt-eedsp!jensen From: jensen@gt-eedsp.UUCP (P. Allen Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: A Thought on X Terminals Summary: Some download the X server from another system Message-ID: <611@gt-eedsp.UUCP> Date: 6 Feb 89 21:43:12 GMT References: <19613@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Distribution: comp Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 20 Many of the X Terminal systems I have looked at (NCD in particular) can down- load the server from another system. This would seem to be reasonable, most X Terminals will be in networks with other systems that have disk, processors, and other perpherials but no Graphics devices for running X Windows. I think that the problem will be that if you want enough memory to have a lot of fonts, the cost starts going up pretty fast. Add to that a 19" monitor and the cost starts to get very close to that of a diskless Apollo or Sun workstation. X Terminals seem to be a good way to go for situations where multiple windows and good quality text display is needed. For more sophisticated graphics applications (3-D, motion, video, ...) what you really still need is a workstation as none of the currently available X Servers are capable of this. -- P. Allen Jensen Georgia Tech, School of Electrical Engineering, Atlanta, GA 30332-0250 USENET: ...!{allegra,hplabs,ulysses}!gatech!gt-eedsp!jensen INTERNET: jensen@gt-eedsp.gatech.edu