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Article #22994Re: Can I run an ST or a Falcon as X-terminal?
From: Gordon James Farrell
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:30
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:30
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In article <H.eg.Gcm4hqRltZY@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) writes: > One of the biggest buyers locally for the ST a few years back was a >Government research lab that used ST's as terminals for their mainframe. >They found the ST was cheaper than dumb terminals for the machine, and >could be used for local proceessing as a bonus. I wonder if a This reminds me, when I was doing a co-op term a couple of years ago at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, they were using STs as vt100/Tektronix terminals for their Sun server (they weren't using Uniterm, though...I think the programme was called VT650). I'm not sure there are many left, at this point, as they were slowly being replaced by Sparcs. Just a little Atari trivia... > > >-- > John Henders > Vancouver,BC ________________________________________________________________________________ Gordon Farrell |e-mail:gfarrell@cs.sfu.ca |"Shee, you guys are so unhip | gordonf@sfu.ca | it's a wonder your bums Simon Fraser University | | don't fall off." Burnaby, B.C., Canada | | -Zaphod Beeblebrox -- ________________________________________________________________________________ Gordon Farrell |e-mail:gfarrell@cs.sfu.ca |"Shee, you guys are so unhip | gordonf@sfu.ca | it's a wonder your bums Simon Fraser University | | don't fall off."
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!van-bc!cs.ubc.ca!fornax!gfarrell From: gfarrell@cs.sfu.ca (Gordon James Farrell) Subject: Re: Can I run an ST or a Falcon as X-terminal? Message-ID: <1993Jan20.233022.24728@cs.sfu.ca> Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada References: <X-terminal?> <H.ea.3KFM1kotvAY@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> <H.eg.Gcm4hqRltZY@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> Distribution: tp Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:30:22 GMT Lines: 28