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From: brooks@vette.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: X Terminals for Sun hosts over dial up phone lines
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Date: 23 Feb 89 06:04:48 GMT
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In article <2566@antique.UUCP> hpk@antique.UUCP (Howard Katseff) writes:
>I have seen a few articles describing X terminals; low cost terminals
>that run an X server and are used to access computing via the network.
>
>I would like to use one of these X terminal from home to access my Sun
>workstation at work over a dialup line.
I understand that the Visual terminal can be set up to run SLIP on a
serial line and performance is said to be "acceptible" at 19.2K baud.
The latest microcom modem will provide performance somewhere between 19.2K
and 38.4K baud with its class 9 MNP protocol.



Is the news software incompatible with your mailer too?
brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp, uunet!maddog.llnl.gov!brooks