Good old Lynx! I'll never forgive myself that I seemed to have forgotten about it. ;-)
How about installing a minimal Slackware, plugging the 386 box into a spare network connection and continuously letting it execute some Intelligent Agent process like calculating Mersenne Primes or parsing webpages as a sparring partner for some search engine? Who knows? If you interconnect enough of those you might even beat Google! ;-) In combination with some serial card readers a 386/486 with Linux and a suitable C/C++ program makes a great, reliable access control system. At startup it could load a number of lookup tables in memory and after that it would endlessly loop at the speed of RAM! 8-) On 25-Jan-03 pedro noticioso wrote: > non-GUI POS you ask? any web based POS, trough lynx of > course ;) > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Indeed, FreeSCO turns any 386/486 into a reliable >> router. I have two >> of them running for years and so far neither of them >> required *any* >> maintenance. >> >> Another application suitable for 386 terminals might >> be a non-GUI POS >> farm. Perhaps even with B/W monitors. Just a >> thought! :-) >> >> >> On 24-Jan-03 rob apodaca wrote: >> > On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:56:13 -0500 >> > Scott Sherrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> It seems to me that further use could be squeezed >> out of 386's and >> >> early 486's but perhaps not as a graphical >> workstation. >> >> >> >> Ideas floating around my head: >> >> >> >> * wireless base stations - I would think you'd >> have better >> >> (central) >> >> management tools with Linux than you would with >> Belkin/D-Link >> >> stations....and you could replace components as >> they fail. Not as >> >> small and pretty as the base stations, but price >> is about the same >> >> (cheaper with a good e*bay shopper) for a >> wireless isa as a belkin >> >> station. >> >> >> >> * edge snort boxes? >> >> >> >> * public (at least inside the institution) palm >> sync stations? >> >> >> >> * x10 stuff (although what I have no idea) >> >> >> >> * mini web servers? >> >> >> >> Anybody doing exciting things with x86 ISA boxes >> that don't >> >> involve >> >> workstations? Is there value in any of the above >> ideas? >> > >> > Hi Scott, >> > I think there is alot of value in the above. >> > I have been thinking along the very same lines. >> Some other things I >> > think could be useful are: >> > >> > - routers (maybe even with vpn) >> > - additional dhcp servers (for other subnets) >> > >> > I had a few others but I can't think of them right >> now. I really >> > would >> > like to start working on some of these things for >> ltsp4.0 but want >> > to >> > wait until it is out of alpha. The build >> environment for it should >> > make >> > adding these things quite easy. >> > >> > My .02 >> > -rob >> > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------- >> > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: >> > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld >> = Something 2 >> > See! >> > http://www.vasoftware.com >> > >> > ____________________________________________________________________ >> > _ >> > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. 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