[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] turning my PC clone into an x-terminal

kds@blabla.intel.com (06/18/91)

I'm sorry if this is an old query, but here is the situation.  I have my PC
clone sitting at home with its funky super-VGA display.  I have this whole 
network of machines at work that all run X11 of one version or another.  I 
have a 9600baud modem connecting the two.  I'd like to be able to run X
applications (e.g., xemacs, FrameMaker) on one of the machines at work and
have it dump all the display commands down the modem line to an appropriate
piece of software running on the PC.

On the network at work, I can connect to Sun 386is, SparcStations, VAXes ro
RS6000s (and really, who knows what else).  They "connect" to the modems via
a Xyplex box.  And then out it goes to me.  I'm bringing up the details of
the connection because I am concerned that one of the boxes in the path
might not like random binary things cruising through.

In the best of all possible worlds, I would just need a piece of software
that would sit on one of the network machines and grap all the x-display
stuff that comes along.  Instead of displaying them, it would stuff them
down the serial line to a piece of software on my PC at home that would
interpret them and put them on my screen.  But perhaps I have too simple a
mental model of how X works.  Nevertheless, that is what I would like to 
have.  Are there any approximations to this extant in the real world?

Answers?  Please reply by mail, as I don't usually get to these newsgroups
in my perusal of news.  Sigh.  Only so many hours in the day...
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Ken Shoemaker, Microprocessor Design, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, California
	kds@mipos2.intel.com