Dumb Terminal?

Bryce C plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
09 May 2003 18:17:11 -0700


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That's not reccomended. FS 3d games don't do well, not well at all. Not
even over 100MB/s lan.

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 17:07, Carl Parrish wrote:
> The site ended up being=20
> http://www.disklessworkstations.com/. Due to the graphics and the
> ability to plug in my more perpherals this may end up being the way I
> go. However at $349.00 it seems weird that I can get a full linux box
> from Wallmart for $200.00 however because of the size the fact that its
> quiet and because of the graphics I may still go this route. (wonder how
> we'll it'll render 3D games and if I can swap graphic cards).=20
>=20
> Carl P.=20
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> On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 15:32, Bryce C wrote:
> > I don't remeber exactly where but I once saw this really cool dumb term
> > box the x,z size of a floppy and a couple inches tall.  Explore the
> > links on the ltsp.org website and one them is for xworkstations.com or
> > something like that. They're logo is the X with sorta rainbow colors.=20
> > They have some really neat terminals. I would've bought one but for the
> > price (~$300), I can build my own, just not that small.
> >=20
> > On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 12:33, Carl Parrish wrote:
> > > A *long* time ago when I worked for motorola we had what we called du=
mb
> > > terminal they were little more than monitors connected though the lan=
 to
> > > a powerhouse machine (or at least what counted for a power house back
> > > then). Recently I was reading an article (which I can't find now) whe=
re
> > > Sun had these kewl little boxes that connected to your monitor and yo=
ur
> > > lan and you could use them as dumb terminals to a sun box (not sure i=
f
> > > you could use them with linux). I *love* this idea If I could free up=
 my
> > > desk space move *all* my computers to my computer room (most are now =
but
> > > I still have two bulky ones in my office and my admin has a few in
> > > hers), and just place this cute little box on my desk I'd be a happy
> > > person. So does anyone know of any good dumb terminal for Linux? Yeah=
 I
> > > know I can *make* any computer into a dumb terminal but mostly what I=
'm
> > > looking for is something small and something that will display very g=
ood
> > > graphics (in case I ever have a lan game night or something). Since I
> > > don't think there is much to this I don't think it should be costly b=
ut
> > > my main conciderations are small, fast, works with linux (terminal
> > > servers) and good graphics. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
CoBryce Communications

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