Re: Sun 3/50 for X Terminal ?

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 00:00

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In <58rf5a$rte@limdns.unilim.fr> bonnefoi@alpha1.unilim.fr (Bonnefoi Pierre-Francois) writes:

>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.

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.

Regards,

Craig.
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From: cdewick@lios.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick)
Subject: Re: Sun 3/50 for X Terminal ?
Date: 1996/12/14
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