[geeks] Desktops

[dave at cca.org]

jp at celestrion.net writes:

>On Thu, 9 May 2002, Peter L. Wargo wrote:

>> > Work:
>> 
>> A Sunray on my desk connected to a 24-proc 24G E6500. (CDE)

>Is it possible to do actual work on those?  I saw them everywhere when I
>visited the San Diego campus (even the security desks had them.  When they
>came out, Sun made it sound like they ran special software, kinda like
>Java applets, with all the processing done on the server.  That made it
>seem a little less than useful for anything other than custom applications
>written inhouse.

>Are you set up to use it as a plain-vanilla XTerm with session-management
>on the smartcard, or is there some magic going on here that I'm missing?

It's an ethernet framebuffer. Gross.

(As I understand it. Never seen one in person.)

I wish Sun had continued the ELC line.

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