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From: ruth@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ruth Aylett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: A mac as an X-terminal?
Message-ID: <1937@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 6 Mar 90 14:05:17 GMT
Reply-To: ruth@aiai.UUCP (Ruth Aylett)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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I am trying to prepare a case that when it's my turn to have my vt100
terminal upgraded to an X-windows terminal, I get a mac instead.

So what do people think of the practicalities of doing this? What is the
cheapest hardware package I could get away with? Do I need an SE, an
SE/30, or some kind of Mac II? How about memory, disk space, large
screen?, video card?, ethernet card?.

The idea would be to run one of the Mac X windows packages (eXodus or
MacX), as well as native Mac software (Persuasion, Word etc). My
terminal is currently on a serial connection to a pad, but I could
probably have a direct ethernet connection if I needed one.

Any help much appreciated!
                                            Ruth Aylett
                                            ruth@aiai.uucp
                                            R.Aylett@ed.ac.uk