XWindows terminals

[Ken Seefried iii]

People have been making vauge references lately to some mythical terminal
with an X server built in.  I thought I'd clear the air a bit....

Visual introduced the 640 terminal at Comdex this year.  The 640 has
a 68000 processor, 2MB of RAM, a 1024x800 monochrome display and an
ethernet interface.

It also has an X11.2 server resident in ROM built on a proprietary real-time
OS (created strictly to support X).  It even works!  Very well, I might add.
I spent some time with this terminal and found it quite useable.  Visual
had 3 640's networked to a Sun3/50 in there booth.

Price is "about $2000".  I think that is a bit stiff, considering most
educational institutions get diskless Sun3/50's for uder $4000.  If Visual
dropped the price of these down to about $1200, I don't think they could 
make enough off them.

Visual also makes the 630, which is an ethernet terminal simply running
TCP/IP, so you can rlogin to a node on your ethernet, instead o trying to run
over a serial line (10M bps as oppsed to 19.2K bps).  I have no price for 
this one.

Visual can be reached at +1 617 459 4903.

DISCLAIMER:  I have no association, finacial or otherwise, with visual.

	ken seeffried iii
	ken at gatech.edu