Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!evan
From: evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SunRiver information...
Keywords: xenix, graphics, fiber optics
Message-ID: <866@telly.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 89 21:52:51 GMT
References: <174@labii.UUCP>
Organization: The Open Vapourware Foundation (join now!)
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In article <174@labii.UUCP> shevett@labii.UUCP (Dave Shevett) writes:

>[...]
>In this article, they review a system from
>SunRiver that allows up to 4 graphic terminals per controller card .  Has
>anyone ever used/seen/purchased this system?

>It seems the ideal solution to the Unix/Dos stigma.

Well, one thing it won't be is a cheap way to implement multiple Xwindow
servers on a 386. Most of the people at SunRiver's Uniforum booth had never
heard of X windows. The one person who had heard of it said [surprise] that
there are 'no foreseeable plans' to implement X on this system.

From what I saw, if you're deeply committed to lots of DOS-under-Unix,
SunRiver may be a good route to go. I'm not sure about how appropriate
it is for native Unix applications (as opposed to an intelligent serial
card and semi-intelligent terminals).

-- 

 Evan Leibovitch, SA of System Telly, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
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