WOOD@SMITHKLINE.COM ("Bill Wood, Upper Merion IS X5163 L331") (02/22/89)
In article <DANA.89Feb21094308@dino.bellcore.com> dana@dino.bellcore.com (Dana A. Chee) writes: >In article <2566@antique.UUCP> hpk@antique.UUCP (Howard Katseff) writes: >> [various questions about SLIP and X] >I have a 9600 baud SLIP line from home, so I can give you a brief >summary of what to expect ... NOTHING!!. 9600 is WAY too slow to run >X over. I have tried to run clients on the office machines, while >using my home machine as the display. Its painful! The windows paint >in little bursts, which makes you think you have a 300 baud modem. >For a summary, it would be very slow going, X was designed for a high >speed network. I use X at 9600 baud all the time, and the response is fabulous! My secret is the new Graphon X terminal. This terminal uses a Graphon protocol to communicate with the host computer, so it avoids the 3 layers of protocol inherent in X over SLIP (you have the X protocol, the SLIP protocol, and the TCPIP protocol). The Graphon communicates directly with an X server running on a Unix machine. Right now I am connected to a 9600 baud Microcom modem, which is dialed in to work; there it connects to another modem, thence to a Dec terminal server running LAT protocol. From there, I am connected to another terminal server which is offering the serial port on a Sun 3 as a service. The Sun, in turn, is running Graphon's X server. I have an xterm session, and from it I did an rlogin to our Vax system, and sent this message. You have to try this terminal to believe it. ICO runs like a bat out of hell! And there are virtually no memory restrictions, since the server is on the Sun. - Bill Wood wood@smithkline.com
tim@ora.UUCP (Tim O'Reilly) (02/24/89)
Who and where is Graphon? -- Tim O'Reilly (617) 527-4210 or (800) 338-NUTS O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Publishers of Nutshell Handbooks 981 Chestnut Street, Newton, MA 02164 UUCP: uunet!ora!tim ARPA: tim@ora.uu.net
aparisi@BBN.COM (Anthony Parisi) (02/27/89)
GraphOn is: GraphOn Corporation 67 S. Bedford St. Suite 400 W. Burlington, MA 01803 (617) 229-5829 Tony Parisi BBN Software Products
klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee) (02/28/89)
There's an article discussing the GraphOn and several other X terminals in the Feb., 1989 issue of *Mini-Micro Systems*. GraphOn Corp. is located in San Jose, California. The GraphOn OptimaX 200 terminal will reportedly be formally introduced at Uniforum this week. Ken Lee -- klee@daisy.uucp Daisy Systems Corp., Interactive Graphics Tools Dept.
yba@sword.bellcore.com (Mark Levine) (02/28/89)
In article <1451@ora.UUCP> tim@ora.UUCP (Tim O'Reilly) writes: >Who and where is Graphon? I have: GraphOn Corp. 1980 Concourse Drive San Jose, CA I think of them as a graphics terminal maker. Sorry I lost the zip code. I only saw the earliest attempts to get the Sun4 version of the X server up, or I'd throw in details. [If you find this isn't the address, let me know! It would explain where my paperwork got lost...]