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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Extremely low memory system
Date: 17 Sep 1995 21:16:15 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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rhawkins@iastate.edu (Rick Hawkins) wrote:
] We're about to experiment with turning old machines that are replaced
] into xterminals. The current guess is to install linux & xfree86 o
] them; i don't think we have anything short of 4M386's (acutally, 486's
] may fall out for this use).
]
] The only duty of such a thing would be to serve as an xhost over telnet
] through the univeristy network (which isn't overloaded).
I don't understand the "xhost over telnet" thing. If you have an
IP stack, you run X over it. You don't run X over a telnet session
in any case.
WSU ran a lab full of machines (4M, 386/16, AT&T WGS) as X terminals
using NETBOOT.COM, dataless, NFS + TCP/IP + msdosfs capable kernels
with a hacked /etc/rc that immediately ran the X server with -query.
When the X server exited, the machine rebooted.
The MSDOSFS was used to access the Winodws 3.1 swap file on the PC
and use it for local swap for BSD.
This worked adequately until an IP address shortage forced them to
be shut down.
4M is more than sufficient, and if you don't want to go to the
trouble of figuring out how to set up local swap, NFS swap works
fine (though somewhat slower). 8M is better, but 4M *will* work.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.