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From: boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (SoftXc Coordinator)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X-Terminals and PC's...
Message-ID: <11517@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 2 Feb 89 01:12:22 GMT
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Reply-To: boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (SoftXc Coordinator)
Organization: University of Lowell, CS Dept
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Well, it seems that what I am looking for doesn't exist, or I'm looking for
the wrong thing. So, let me try and explain what I need.

We need to have some X-windows setups for a seminar. I originally went about
getting X11R3 to run on our Encore Multimax, but it turns out that SCO will
be supporting X-Windows for Xenix, which we will soon have. Problem 1
solved.

Now, what we need to do is set up some terminals to run X-Windows on. I saw
the list of X-Terminals available (all > $1000). What I understand of
X-Terminals is that they are directly hooked to the Ethernet. I also
understand that there is software available for PC's with Ethernet cards to
be used as X-terminals (assuming proper configuration, VGA/EGA or whatever
is required). Since we already have several PC's on the Ethernet running
PC-NFS, we would also like to be able to use these for X-Windows. Does
anybody know of the software to run it???

Also, I believe I saw a DEC VR260 being used for X-Windows, but I'm not sure
if this model is an X-Windows terminal, or if it needs something else in
addition to work. Could someone elaborate on this???

Any information is greatly appreciated. I can summmarize and post...

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Brian O'Neill, MS-DOS Software Exchange Coordinator
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