>I could see an XT/286 possibly running X, if the server, even, were
>running on another machine. This would require some sort of networked X
>server... Where EVERYTHING is kept in RAM on a BigLinux box, and ONLY the
>info being displayed to the screen is transmitted over the network to an
>ELKS machine. The ELKS machine would be a truely dumb X Terminal--not
>keeping any fonts, window parameters, etc, in memory at all. Display only
>what it's given over the network.
>
>Now if anything like this would ever be writtin, I have no idea... I won't
>be the one to do it... but I could see that sort of model working on the
>low-low-low-end machines. Maybe someone will care enough to do it. :-)
Given that I occasionally am given or find in a local skip (dumpster or
tip for you other people) perfectly good 386DX40 motherboards I doubt
if this will ever be worth the trouble.
