Thanks for all the input on this matter. The result was that indeed one
can run Openwindows applications on Xterminals, providing that they don't
use any of the NeWs extensions. ANd this will work faily well if you
have a good server with loads of memory and disk space AND you aren't
doing a lot of compute/disk intensive applications. We do a great
deal of compute/disk intensive work here, so the costs of Xterminals
in terms of performance for the dollar would be somewhat prohibitive.
I have a complete listing of all responses, so if anyone wants it,
I'll send it along to you.
Thanks to all of these people for their helpful insights.
leo@ai.mit.edu Leonardo C. Topa
ems@ccrl.nj.nec.com Ed Strong
lars@CMC.COM Lars Poulsen
datri@concave.convex.com Anthony A. Datri
lhdsy1!cyberia.hou281.chevron.com!hjgwi@uunet.UU.NET Jay G. Williamson
Brent Alan Wiese <brent@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu Brent Alan Wiese
kalli!kevin@fourx.Aus.Sun.COM Kevin Sheehan
benson@odi.com Benson I. Margulies
halvard@trd.sdata.no Halvard Halvorsen
David_Boyd@imd.sterling.com David Boyd
thorn@java.CC.McGill.CA Ron HALL
Eckhard.Rueggeberg@ts.go.dlr.de Eckhard Rueggeberg
mark@hobbes.mathsci.denison.edu Mark A. Delcher
ross@dseg.ti.com Tony Ross
sheryl@seas.gwu.edu Sheryl Coppenger antonson@Software.ORG Todd S. Antonson
bernards@ECN.NL Marcel Bernards
liz@isis.cgd.ucar.EDU Liz Coolbaugh
jbowes@unixcentral.com Jerry Bowes
tlr@toy.rad.msu.edu Terry Rosenbaum
valdes@geosun.uchicago.edu John Valdes
kkinners@ios.bc.ca Kerry Kinnersley
kowal@ide.com Stephen Kowal
ppc@inel.gov Pam Boge
miker@sbcoc.com Mike Raffety
leo@ai.mit.edu Leonardo C. Topa
bb@math.ufl.edu Brian Bartholomew
macphed@dvinci.usask.ca Ian MacPhedran
fetrow@biostat.washington.edu> David Fetrow
barmar@Think.COM Barry Margolin
celita@taux01.nsc.com Eli Lopez
birger@vest.sdata.no Birger Wathne
knutson%sw.mcc.com@mcc.com Jim Knutson
ast@thorn.geoquest.com Ad S. Talwar
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Susan KJ Thielen Application Programmer, System Manager
Advanced Imaging Lab
Robarts Research Institute Phone: (519) 663-3833
PO Box 5015, 100 Perth Drive Fax: (519) 663-3789
London, ON N6A 5K8 E-mail: thielen@irus.rri.uwo.ca
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri Sep 28 2001 - 23:06:40 CDT