david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis) (05/29/90)
In article <1990May24.165439.12653@ctr.columbia.edu>, seth@ctr.columbia.edu (Seth Robertson) writes: |>You can turn Suns (any Sun, but Sun 3/50s are probably the only ones |>that you would care about) into X terminals. As X terminals, they are |>fast since they don't need to swap and the 68020 is only processing X |>events and doing kernel things. |> |>It also saves space since you only need 1.7 MB of space for any number of |>machines running Xkernel. Xkernel is available for anonymous ftp from |>sol.ctr.columbia.edu [128.59.64.40] Please try to avoid working hours |>(10-7 EDT) An option for people who want to keep clients running locally is to run the Xtool server from Xgraph (sorry; no phone number handy). Xtool implements an X server as a SunView client and runs very quickly in the SunView environment. The demos I saw at Xhibition90 were very good. Technical details, including some impressive [though somewhat arrogantly= presented] performance statistics, are in the conference proceedings for that show. David B. Lewis david@ics.com david%ics.UUCP@bu.edu ...!uunet!ics.com!david "Oh, who that ever lived and loved can look upon an egg unmoved?" -Clarence Day