Re: Sun 3/50 for X Terminal ?

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From: Steve H. Price
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 00:00

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Craig Dewick (cdewick@lios.apana.org.au) wrote:

: >I want to know if I can use it like a X terminal (sufficient power ?)
: >And if a system installed on a hard drive is required (I've found a
: >scsi drive of 100mb too...) or if I can use the sun by
: >network... (with bootpd and nfs)

: You can use a 3/50 as an Xterminal, although it's nowhere near the
: performance of any current generation hardware.

It depends a whole lot on what computer you run the clients on.  I am
running on a 486, and although I have very little memory, and my computer
is slow, the 3/50 copes very well.  It is also useful that when my 486 is
under a very high load, my Xserver is still running freely so my pointer
still moves around and I can still move windows etc...

: Have a look at ftp://ftp.ctr.columbia.edu/Xkernel for all the things you
: need to make your machine into an Xterminal. It doesn't need a local disk
: for this.

If you are using Linux, then the Linux Xkernel I used
(ftp://sv1pc125.cs.york.ac.uk/pub) has excellent installation
instructions, and worked out of the archive.

Cheers,

Steve

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Subject: Re: Sun 3/50 for X Terminal ?
Date: 1996/12/17
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