chris@gargoyle.UChicago.EDU (Chris Johnston) (01/20/88)
I am interested in X or NeWS terminals which are smaller, lighter, more compact than a Sun3/50 or Apollo. The ability to run over serial line in the 9.6kb to 56kb range might provide reasonable performance... Anyone know of plans or availability of such a critter? I know the NeWS group at Sun did this with an Amiga (Atari?), but they did it just to prove it could be done and it isn't a real product... cj -- * -- Chris Johnston -- * UChicago Computer Science Dept * chris@gargoyle.uchicago.edu * 1100 East 58th Street * ...ihnp4!gargoyle!chris * Chicago, IL 60637 * johnston@uchicago.BITNET * 312-702-8440
bob@fidelio.cis.ohio-state.EDU (Bob Sutterfield) (01/22/88)
How about GraphOn's library of routines to make an X server talk over
a serial line to one of their graphics terminals? A GraphOn talking
to our Pyramid over a Telebit Trailblazer doing LZ compression sounds
pretty sweet to me for a terminal for my study at home.
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soon: bob@cis.ohio-state.edurad@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Richard A. Dramstad) (01/23/88)
In article <870@gargoyle.UChicago.EDU> chris@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Chris Johnston) writes: > >I am interested in X or NeWS terminals which are smaller, lighter, >more compact than a Sun3/50 or Apollo. The ability to run over >serial line in the 9.6kb to 56kb range might provide reasonable >performance... >Anyone know of plans or availability of such a critter? ... There are lots of rumors out of DEC-land about something called a "VAXterm," which is supposed to be a color graphics terminal equipped with the Dragon graphics chip set (same as in the GPX) that knows how to speak X. Obviously, you're not going to get a lot of details by calling your DEC salesperson... Dick Dramstad