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Re: Sun workstations

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Ken Yap wrote:

>>Bill,
>>
>>Yes we want them if they are at least sparcstations. (they could be used
>>as Xterms if not functional boxes) Mmmmmmmmmm and if we can't use them
>>I'll personally volunteer the nesacary space... mmmm BEOWOLF cluster
>>
>>even if they are pre-sparc they could still be usefull (do any of the
>>techs have expierience with 68K linux ? Frank?)
>
>If they are 68k based the best thing you can do with them is turn them
>into X-terminals, there's a package around for this, not sure it's Linux
>based, but it's still free; they'll be too slow for today's tastes.
>

My point was that Sun boxes with 17 and 21" screens would make damn nice
xterminals if nothing else.

Grant

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