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- From: Bruce.Albrecht@seag.fingerhut.com (Bruce Albrecht)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: -----> X-Windows on Amiga <--------
- Date: 09 Mar 1996 22:34:18 -0600
- Organization: Fingerhut Companies
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- In-reply-to: fabasi@unixg.ubc.ca's message of 9 Mar 1996 04:25:08 GMT
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- In article <4hr174$8qg@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> fabasi@unixg.ubc.ca (Farshad Abasi) writes:
- > I was wondering, if I setup on of the available X11 packages for the
- > Amiga, will I be able to run software I can run in my university lab. For
- > example we use HP servers and X terminals. We have Netscape 2.0 on them
- > So if I have X setup on my Amiga, could I telnet/rlogin to the Hp servers
- > and give set the display permission so that I can run Netscape at home on
- > my Amiga using X?
-
- Yes, you can. There's a demo version of AmiWin, but it doesn't
- support any fonts beyond the couple it provides, so you'll really want
- to shell out the $45 (if I remember correctly) to register it. It's a
- good product, and worth the registration fee. The demo is available
- from Aminet, I think under graphics/X11.
-
- Having said this, I really don't think you'll want to run netscape
- from a dialup, because it will be unbearably slow. All of the
- graphics will be sent to your machine at 14.4K, or 28.8K, and it will
- take much longer to display anything on netscape than it would take to
- display it using a browser running on your Amiga.
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- Bruce Albrecht Bruce.Albrecht@seag.fingerhut.com
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