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- From: f91-gal@nada.kth.se (G÷ran Alterland)
- Subject: PC-unix plea for help!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.092410.22839@kth.se>
- Keywords: pc, unix, info ,help
- Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet)
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:24:10 GMT
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- From f91-gal Fri Nov 13 10:13:27 1992
- To: esr@snark.thyrsus.com
- Subject: PC-unix plea for help!
-
- Hello Netters!
-
- I represent a student body that will soon spend something
- like 200.000 USD on hardware. I'd really appreciate if
- you could inform me about some aspects of PC unixing.
- We will be buing a Sun4 and terminals to attach to it. At present it
- looks like these 'terminals' will probably be sparcstations, but
- there is a strong movement that wishes to see a PC-based solution instead.
- However, our list of requirements on such a system is long and though.
- We need:
- 1) A system that can connect up to the Sun4 as 'dummie terminals'.
- 2) In terminal mode It must be able to run X11R5, with Motiv, with
- at least 256 colours and a resolution of 1280x1024.
- 3) This must go throught a fast link - screen update must be as quick
- (or only marginally slower) than a sparcstation solution (any recommendations
- the link? I think a Lan/Ethernet solution would be too slow, but I don't
- really know...)
- 4) It must also be able to run 'standalong unix'. (Is SCO the best that's
- available as far as Unix is concerned?)
- 5) Of course, it must run Dos, Windows and OS2 as well.
-
- Is there any hardware that's able to do this for us?
- Would any 486DX50 or DX266 solution suffice or are we better off waiting
- for the Pentium? Is Local Bus necessay? VESA or PCI?
- Any help at all would be much appreciated!
-
- E-mail to: f91-gal@alv.nada.kth.se
-
- Thanx!
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