thank you anyway :)
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Tom Massey wrote:
> Foris Gabor wrote:
> >
> > Dear Tom,
> >
> > I still did not have the time to read through but credit me one more
> > question. Can this terminal be graphical as well?
> > I mean wether I can have the same platform on an old pc as i have in X11?
> > Can I have gnome, kde or it is just a simple TEXT terminal?
>
> When you say 'old pc', how old do you mean, and what sort of video
> card/monitor does it have? This is really what will determine what you
> can display on it. If you've got an EGA monitor or earlier hooked up to
> it, then I doubt X will do anything except destroy it. I've only ever
> hooked up really old machines as terminals (XT's running emulation,
> VT100's) so I've never been able to try it, but if you've got a terminal
> with a VGA monitor, you might be able to get X running on it - just
> remember to stay within the capabilities of the monitor on the terminal.
> Probably the type of terminal emulation you've got running on the old pc
> will also be important, and might make running X on the terminal
> impossible, eg running VT100 emulation you won't be able to use X,
> because a VT100 has no idea what to do with any of the X stuff. You'd
> need to run emulation that understood about X. Not much help sorry, this
> isn't something I have experience with.
>
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