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From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X "Terminal" Vendors List (& associated resources)
Message-ID: <2794@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 89 17:42:18 GMT
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Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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The Feb. 27 issue of InfoWorld mentions the MIPS RS1210 X terminal.
70Hz, non-interlaced, 16" monochrome, 1024x1024 pixels, up to 4.5MB RAM,
Ethernet, TCP/IP.  Basic model with 1MB is $3200, available in late
March.  I saw one of these at UniForum.  The MIPS salesman admitted that
it was really a NCD X terminal.

Some other news from UniForum:

IBM was displaying X servers for OS/2 and PC-DOS.  Sorry, I didn't get
any details.  Apple has X running on the Macintosh under A/UX.  Apollo
has ported Open Dialog to X, but it doesn't use the X Toolkit (yet).
Open Dialog support for the X Toolkit is planned to support Motif.


NCR, NCD, Visual, Acer, and GraphOn X terminals were all on display.
The first 3 look and perform suprisingly similarly.  Salesmen from
Tektronix and Wyse admitted that their rumored X terminals were vaporware
at best.

Toshiba and NEC were displaying "portable" 80386-based UNIX computers that
run the X Window System.  By portable, they mean they fold into 15 pound
breifcases and can be carried to somewhere else with AC power.  They're
kind of cute, though.

Ken Lee
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klee@daisy.uucp
Daisy Systems Corp., Interactive Graphics Tools Dept.