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- From: oj@miki.pictel.com (Oliver Jones)
- Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
- Subject: Re: What's the best PC X terminal software? Deskview X, Windows X?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.223117.14368@sm.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:31:17 GMT
- Sender: onoe@sm.sony.co.jp (Atsushi Onoe)
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 14:18:35 GMT
- Message-Id: <1992Dec21.141835.4570@miki.pictel.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- References: <EJH.92Dec16141119@khonshu.colorado.edu>
- Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu
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- In article <EJH.92Dec16141119@khonshu.colorado.edu> ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett) writes:
-
- > ... with our real spiffy 14.4K bps modems, would running an X
- >terminal over a modem be prohibitively slow? Anyone ever try that?
-
- NCD PC-XView with Xremote works decently (for me in a local-connect
- trial setup at 9600bps async). They're selling the Xremote/PC-Xview
- package for $200 now.
-
- A couple of cautions.
-
- 1) I had a HUGE .Xdefaults file. I trimmed it way down,
- and client startup time improved quite a bit.
-
- 2) The Xremote release notes say, and my experience verifies, that
- your PC should have a 16550 serial controller chip (the one
- with a character silo) instead of a '450 if you're going
- to be running serial communications at >= 9600bps
- on MS Windows. Most PCs come with not-good-enough serial
- controller chips. You can probably buy the appropriate
- serial card in a computer store for < $50.
-
- (I don't have any relationship with NCD other than as a customer.)
-
- Ollie Jones
-