On Friday 23 June 2006 10:24, you wrote: > > >> So, as I said, you don't need a powerful processor just to run > > >> the X server. > > > > > > Some early X terminals used a 68k and were fast enough. > > > > Sun > > I don't know that Sun ever made X-Terminals. Although you could argue > that a diskless workstation is pretty close to an X-Terminal. >
That's exactly right in fact... The Sun 3/xx's (e.g. Sun 3/50 3/60 & 3/80) WERE originally sold as workstations (Diskless & with disk). However when we bought them, the Sparc 2 was all the rage, so they were flogging them off cheap as XTerminals. > > I think NCD used 68k's as well. Also fairly low res (For nowdays). > > The NCD 68k with 19" tubes run 1280x1024. > > > But > > did go a lot quicker, probably because they really were dedicated... > > Even so, my 5 year old laptop with 1400x1050 32bit colour, > > un-accelerated graphics (r128) under Linux is several times faster... > > A 5 year old laptop is a LOT newer than a 68k based NCD. I think > the 68k based NCD came out approx 1986-87 or so? Electronics > makes a lot of progress in 15 years. Umm... They were still selling them in 1995... And yes I know they were old... That was point... I thought... H
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