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Adam Thompson (thompsn@ccu.umanitoba.ca) wrote (in response to my query):
: 
: >	I'm looking for a Network based character terminal, that is
: >	not an X terminal.  For example, a character terminal that
: >	has a serial port, and an ethernet port, with the latter being
: >	capable of creating a telnet or rlogin character session
: >	with a host.  Think of it as a Terminal with an integrated
: >	single port terminal server.
: 
: To the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing on the market today.
: 
: >	Does anybody know of anything that even comes close to this?
: >	I'm not looking for the "well, you can use an X terminal, and
: >	just start a telnet session", because than's not what I want.
: 
: Curious: *WHY* do you want such a thing?

	OK, you asked...

	Our current configuration employs many ASCII terminals and a Datability
	VCP-1000 terminal server, able of functioning at a maximum of
	38.4 KB.  Because of the nature of our application, a ridiculous
	amount of data is being sent to the terminal, meaning that a user
	has to wait for the screen to finish drawing these silly boxes before
	the actual text is printed.  Because the speed with which the user
	can get the data is critical, 38.4 KB is to slow.  A network
	based connection is much faster.

	A PC works fine, but we don' want to have to maintain the software
	that will run on it.  Basically, we are looking for a hardware
	solution to a software problem.  And I'm supposed to be a
	software engineer...

	Anyhow, don't tell me to re-engineer our application, because while
	that is the "best" solution, it is not considered to be an
	option (sob!).

	I'd still like to find such a beastie, but since you are not the
	first to suggest a PC is the best alternative (an option I have
	been suggesting for months), I probably want something I ain't 
	gonna get.

	Thanks for your input.

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