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- From: smith@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Steven Smith)
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- Subject: Re: How well do Sun 3/60s work as color X terminals?
- Message-ID: <smith.724473709@phylo>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 02:41:49 GMT
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- gaarder@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Gaarder) writes:
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- >We have a number of Sun 3/50s, which we have been happily using as mono
- >X terminals. Now some of our people want color, and an obvious answer
- >is to get some color 3/60s and use them the same way. How do these
- >do for speed? Are there any gotchas I should know about?
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- >Thanks,
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- >Steven Gaarder Network and Systems Administrator
- >gaarder@actech.com A C Technology, Ithaca, N.Y., USA
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- Steve,
- We use them with Xkernel and they work just fine. Performance is identical
- (as far as I can tell) to an SS1 running Openwindows.
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- Steve Smith
- Millipore Imaging
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