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Original to: uucp
In a message of <16 Jan 93 19:02:18>, Uucp (3:713/602) writes:

 >> I could probably obtain the cash for a Falcon if the technology
 >> existed to make it into an intelligent X-terminal. Anybody know about
 >> Falcons and Ethernet cards and X-server software.
 U> 
 U> No-can-do on a Falcon...  No VME slot for the Ethernet card.  Rumour has
 U> it that there are VME Ethernet cards for the TT and even an X server,
 U> but nobody seems to have been able to find out concrete information to
 U> add to the FAQ...
 U> 
 U> In North America, you'd be completely out of luck, unless you could read
 U> German and wanted to order the goodies from overseas.  Rumour has it
 U> (hmm, not rumours... not here in c.s.a.st!) that there are about 300 TTs
 U> in all of North America.

If somebody would release information (read hard data/source code) on NCD's
Xremote we might have a chance.  As it is, ethernet hardware is _expensive_
-it's only the huge volumes associated with the PC market that make the low
prices possible.

 U> --- Chris Herborth

\`miff`                                                       /|\

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