luc wrote:
don't know that Sun ever made X-Terminals. Although you could argue
that a diskless workstation is pretty close to an X-Terminal.
SunRay One was pretty cool, although more VNC than X terminal. Done
right, it may be more cost-effective to push pixels over the network
than X protocol.
As a consumer, I don´t bother to understand what´s a thin-client (X
terminal or Video Network Computing) but I would be happy to have less
different kind of cable to manage, and so I would want to find a flat
monitor enhanced by a graphic card inside. Maybe connected to my PC with
an USB cable or a Firewire or an Ethernet cable, or wirelessly.
I´ll be happy to see my mobo less cluttered by all kind of slot, more
compact, less heterogenous.
This is an interesting idea. This wouldn't be much different software
wise and the main difference between this and and the video card to run
an X server would be the type of communication link.
We would have the minor issue that the mouse and keyboard would be on
the server end of the communications link. This could probably be
handled by minor patches to the Kernel a driver depending on the
communication link being used (if the Kernel wasn't already able to do
this).
Since we don't make flat panel displays, this would need to be in a
small flat enclosure that could be velcroed to the back of the display.
--
JRT
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