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Re: PC532 & X11 Windowing - Why not do it now with SLIP / KA9Q & a PC ?.

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From: Rick Rodman
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1992 02:09
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hello:

> First an Idea, then a Question ......

> I guess most of us want windowing on our PC532s ?
> & we've perceived the problem is lack of hardware ?
..
> 	C) If you have an existing [34]86 Unix with SVGA & X windows + SLIP,
> 	   just connect it to the PC532 serially, & port KA9Q to the PC532
> 	   to support SLIP.  Connect perhaps 4 ttys @ 38.4 kbps between the two.
..

Why not just put a cheap SCSI board in the clone?  There are SCSI boards like
those from Corel that have nothing on them but an NCR chip.
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Subject: Re: PC532 & X11 Windowing - Why not do it now with SLIP / KA9Q & a PC ?.
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Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 02:09:33 GMT