Re: Cheap hardware X-terms?

[Michael A Hamblin <michaelh@utdallas.edu>]

On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Doug Loss wrote:

> I was talking with Roman yesterday when Sun's new Sun Ray system came
> up.  Sun Ray is a form of network end station that doesn't run
> applications locally but on a server.  For the life of me I can't quite
> figure out how it's much different from an X-terminal.  From what I can
> see, if a Sun Ray goes bad you should be able to unplug it, plug another
> in, and be at pretty much the same spot you were previously.  Roman
> tells me that the Sun Rays are stateless, which may mean that you can
> resume work where you left off after the situation I described above,
> but I don't know that for sure.

We're going to be getting the Sun Ray's here at UTD soon. Maybe once
they're in I'll be able to get yall more info, since I'll be the one
setting them up most likly :)

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