[rescue] sunrays>

joshua d boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Aug 9 09:56:55 CDT 2001


On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 07:55:48AM -0700, Fogg, James wrote:
> Pardon my cluelessness....
> 
> But what is a Sunray? 
> Is it a fancy Xterm? 
> I believe they have no local storage and not much ram. Is this true?
> Do they run apps locally or on the server.
> Is the server software "available", "gotta dish out cash for it" or End Of
> Life"?

Apparently a Sunray is just a bunch of asics with no real
inteligence.  Not sure if it actually draws primitives, or it it is just
blitting the bitmap over the net.

BTW, is this
(http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1262982707) worth
shelling out $30 for?  Software difficulty in aquiring (apparently still
sold)?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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