stephen@mtiame.oz (Stephen Boucher) (05/30/90)
Can anyone tell me whether the NCR Towerview terminals still use a proprietary daemon for font loading, or have they seen the light and started using TFTP I sort of need to know so that I can make allowances for using them in a non WIN/TCP network. Many Thanks, Stephen
dmdc@ncrsea.Seattle.NCR.COM (Dennis M. Dooley) (05/31/90)
In article <233@mtiame.oz> stephen@mtiame.oz (Stephen Boucher) writes: >Can anyone tell me whether the NCR Towerview terminals still use a proprietary >daemon for font loading, or have they seen the light and started using TFTP > >I sort of need to know so that I can make allowances for using them in a non >WIN/TCP network. > The newer TOWERVIEWs do not require the TVserver daemon on the font host. They use either NFS or TFTP for file access and for network booting. The newer units, model 3412, also support the ability to download X Window Clients. At the recent Xhibition show in San Jose, NCR demonstrated both twm and mwm as downloaded clients running on the TOWERVIEW. Twm (Tab Window Manager a.k.a. Tom's Window Manager) and mwm (Motif Window Manager) normally run on a host machine in the network. Running these Clients on the TOWERVIEW significantly reduces network traffic and improves the response of window manager activities. NCR has not yet announced the availability dates for these downloaded window managers. NCR also demonstrated Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) support on the TOWERVIEW as well as the announcements of new color and gray scale models for the TOWERVIEW family. ________________________________________________________________________ Dennis M. Dooley Systems Engineering NCR Corporation ncrsea!dmdc (206) 643-4150 15400 S.E. 30th Pl. dennis.dooley@ncrsea.Seattle.NCR.COM Bellevue, WA. 98007
adk@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Andrew D Kailhofer) (06/04/90)
The modular towerview uses tftp to download the fonts. The newer motherboard ROMs also have a button on the setup window for NFS. Now, as soon as they release NFS for 32/700s running 1.0 (or greater), I'll be a happy camper, and can stop using bletcherous tftp. Andy kailhofr@cs.uwm.edu 414/678-7793