[SunRescue] NetBSD v. Linux v. Solaris 2.51

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drone8of9 at crosswinds.net writes:

>>>(I also have a Wyse x-terminal sitting in storage because I
>>>don't have the server software for it to boot from...)

>I thought that since it was remote X that things like display are handled by
>the terminal not the server?  If that's the case then why do you need
>software to run the Wyse?

By "server software" I meant software running on the x-terminal.
x-terminals are just diskless workstations running X on the bare
metal, rather than a unix kernel. (Some of them have the software
in ROMs, most use bootp, tftp, etc to get it.)

The wyse X-terminals have to load the X server software from a
fileserver, but they *do* have telnet in ROM! So at worst it's
a text terminal that plugs into your LAN, which is kinda neat...

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