Am Fre, 2003-07-11 um 22.57 schrieb Alan Coopersmith: > Rene Bartsch wrote: > > I'm not sure if it's a SunRay. The system is about 4 years old, one > > server and 20 terminals, which are very light-weight (I can remind our > > Sun-admin once said Sun uses a special protocol which sets each bit one > > by one on the terminal - assumingly what you called DDX some lines > > down). > > Sounds like a SunRay to me - you can see if it looks like the product pictures > on http://wwws.sun.com/hw/sunray/index.html if you want to confirm. > > As for DDX, that's "Device Dependent X" - it's the module that most people > call a driver - there's a different one for each type of video card, and the > SunRay DDX does in fact send the pixels over the network in the SunRay > protocol. (Not quite one-by-one in many cases, but the basic concept is correct.)
Ok, the thin-clients are SunRay 1 ones ;o) -- Rene Bartsch Faculties MNI Computer Science 8th Semester FH Giessen/Friedberg, Germany Facsimile/Phone: +49 7 00/72 27 87 24 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
