[rescue] What is an XTerminal 1?

Sheldon T. Hall shel at cmhcsys.com
Tue Dec 31 21:44:58 CST 2002


"Lionel Peterson" <lionel4287 at yahoo.com> says ...

> --- "Sheldon T. Hall" <shel at cmhcsys.com> wrote:
> > I think the secret lick for a small, quiet Xterminal is a modest
> > laptop Windows PC with Cygwin/XFree86.  Something like P-II 300
> > or so will do.  Use an external keyboard and mouse.  No fan,
> > almost no heat, takes up minimal room.
>
> PII-300s tend to have fans, in my exp... (but my exp. is limited)

Yeah, but to save battery power, they only run 'em when the chip gets hot.
I've got a P-<mumble> 450 and a P-III 750, both of which have fans but only
run 'em when you're really working the machine.  The 750 almost never runs
the fan, in fact, and laptop drives are pretty quiet.

-Shel


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