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From: Duncan Thomas
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 00:00

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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:24:09 GMT, spug@intlog.demon.co.uk (Steve
Parry) wrote:

>I bought some machines from auction not long ago they had 50 MB HDDs,
>and had been networked together, running windows. How could they have
>run say MS Office on this kit?

Can't (AFAIK) be done on Microsoft kit. They were trying some thin
client stuff using some bought in technology, but everything I reead
on it said it was really flakey, because NT was really designed as a
desktop OS, not a client/server model. If I find the URL about this
I'll post it.

If you went for Tom's Linux idea then Star Office will run under
X-Windows and is (claimed) totally MSOffice compatable (But *MUCH*
cheaper). Mail me if you want a bit more info on this, since I am in
the process of creating just such a setup.

-- 
Duncan Thomas
dtp8@aber.ac.uk

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Date: 1998/11/20
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