Martin DiViaio on Sun, 12 Mar 2000 10:24:53 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [PLUG] XFree 4.0 - multiheading


Darxus wrote:
> >
> > Several companies use to make graphical terminals with full
> > keyboard/mouse support built in. Couldn't you hook one of these up to
> > the serial bus and have the X server communicate to it through there?
> >
> > These terminals aren't cheep. It does sort of defeat the purpose you are
> > working towards but it has an advantage of showing that it can work.
> > Once that is shown the OS community can take over from there.
> 
> It sounds like you're talking about X Terminals, which have their own X
> server ?

No. These terminals are incapable of running any program on their own.
They are sort of like an old fashioned text terminal but with full
graphics capabilities.


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