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From: romwa@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Royal Ontario Museum)
Date: Thu, 30-Mar-89 23:28:28 EST
Message-ID: <1989Mar30.232828.4925@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SunRiver information...
References: <174@labii.UUCP> <866@telly.UUCP> <939@applix.UUCP>
Reply-To: romwa@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Royal Ontario Museum)
Keywords: xenix, graphics, fiber optics

In article <939@applix.UUCP> jim@applix.UUCP (Jim Morton) writes:
>4) If you're looking for X client machines, look for something that will
>   offload the host machine of everything except the X protocol - do the
>   graphics locally on an X terminal or PC with X client software. From
>   what I've seen on the market right now, if you're going to spend $2000
>   on an X client system, get PC X client software - that way you still have
>   a DOS PC in front of you, reuse potentially existing PC hardware, and
>   have something to use if the X server machine goes down. I'll change my
>   mind when X terminals get under $1000 and have user-loadable firmware on
>   removable media (or downloadable).
>
Do you mean X server here?  If the client is remote, then
where's the server?  Isn't the host the client and the
terminal the server in X parlance?

Mark T. Dornfeld
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queens Park
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
M5S 2C6

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