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- From: michael.smith@f842.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (michael smith)
- Message-ID: <3_800_842_fidonet2b6115c1@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Can I run an ST or a Falcon as X-terminal?
- Organization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au
- Date: 23 Jan 93 10:52:26 GMT
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- Original to: uucp
- In a message of <16 Jan 93 19:02:18>, Uucp (3:713/602) writes:
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- >> I could probably obtain the cash for a Falcon if the technology
- >> existed to make it into an intelligent X-terminal. Anybody know about
- >> Falcons and Ethernet cards and X-server software.
- U>
- U> No-can-do on a Falcon... No VME slot for the Ethernet card. Rumour has
- U> it that there are VME Ethernet cards for the TT and even an X server,
- U> but nobody seems to have been able to find out concrete information to
- U> add to the FAQ...
- U>
- U> In North America, you'd be completely out of luck, unless you could read
- U> German and wanted to order the goodies from overseas. Rumour has it
- U> (hmm, not rumours... not here in c.s.a.st!) that there are about 300 TTs
- U> in all of North America.
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- If somebody would release information (read hard data/source code) on NCD's
- Xremote we might have a chance. As it is, ethernet hardware is _expensive_
- -it's only the huge volumes associated with the PC market that make the low
- prices possible.
-
- U> --- Chris Herborth
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