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From: Digby Tarvin digbyt@acm.org
Subject: X terminals would be an ideal platform for Plan 9 terminals.
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 04:27:57 +0100 (GMT/BST)

> As the discussion goes on Plan 9 adoption, and the difficulty to obtain
> technical specifications for hardware, I think it's not completely out
> of topic to mention an old idea : X terminals would be a very good
> platform for Plan 9 terminals ; when I see the processing power, memory
> and display that we use here on our X terminals to display mostly fixed
> pitch fonts in xterms (and images from the web), I think that Plan 9
> terminals would be a much better use for this material.
> 
> Moreover, X terminals usually have no disk, so one doesn't feel that a
> part of the machine is left unexploited by the system, and it is much
> easier to convince the user that it's not by bad design that the machine
> has to be rebooted when he logs in.
> 
> Do you think there is any chance to obtain the necessary technical
> specifications from NCD?
> 
I would certainly love to see this. I have often wished I had the
documentation to let me experiment with downloading code into my
NCD HMX. It is so frustrating having a MIPS machine on my desk, and
having no control over the software that runs on it.

Being able to make it a Plan9 terminal would be great! It is
certainly has better specs than any of the PC or Sun displays
I have at my disposal...

Regards,
DigbyT
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Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk