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From: lgy@blake.acs.washington.edu (Laurence Yaffe)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: New X-Terminal Vendor announcement (NCR)
Message-ID: <1788@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 28 Apr 89 02:14:25 GMT
References: <4396@stiatl.UUCP> <523@ncrorl.Orlando.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: lgy@blake.acs.washington.edu (Laurence Yaffe)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <523@ncrorl.Orlando.NCR.COM> jmcelroy@ncrorl.Orlando.NCR.COM (J. McElroy) writes:
- 
- Some adjustments to the information posted about the 
- NCR TOWERVIEW X Station....
- 
- TCP/IP and TOWERNET networking are available.
- >
- TOWERVIEW supports locally executing X client programs, downloadable X
- extensions, multiple telnet sessions in terminal emulation windows, and
-  a window to the RS-232 port (called Modem Window) when using 
- ethernet for host communications.
- 
- Jeff McElroy - NCR E&M Orlando    407-333-9250
- jmcelroy@Orlando.NCR.COM
- ...uunet!ncrorltv!jeff

    I took a look at one of these in our local NCR office. However,
when I tried to arrange a demo of the X terminal in my department,
the local NCR people claimed that it needed to have its own software
resident on whatever hosts you wished to connect with.  Consequently,
they claimed that they couldn't (yet) get it working with the MIPS or
DEC machines we have.  They, of course, were quite willing to sell me
an NCR Tower in addition to some X terminals :-).

Can this really be true?  It sure sounded fishy, but if they
didn't think the demo would work, who am I to argue otherwise?
(Instead, I got an NCD X terminal to demo.  Bigger screen, more pixels,
lower price.  Quite nice.)

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Laurence G. Yaffe		Internet: lgy@newton.phys.washington.edu
Department of Physics, FM-15	  Bitnet: yaffe@phast.bitnet
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195