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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Network Dumb Terminal? Date: 29 Apr 1996 00:20:30 -0700 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4m1qju$nrt@itchy.serv.net> References: <4lemh8$7d6@its.hooked.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net In article <4lemh8$7d6@its.hooked.net>, Matt Clark <mclark@hooked.net> wrote: >Ok. Here Is What I Want To Do: I want to have an old Compaq 386/sx do a >remote boot off of my FreeBSD server and then act like a dumb terminal >without >having to load the a complete kernel (640k of ram can't do much), IE act like >a serial dumb terminal but use my mini-LAN at home. Is this possible? I'm sure I'll get flamed for not recommending a FreeBSD-based solution, but... Why can't you run NCSA telnet under DOS with a tcp/ip stack? -- Sean T. Lamont, President / CEO, Abstract Software (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson