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On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 04:41, Simon Fryer wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Bingle</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> A while ago Riff tapped:</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Alternatively, before I restart this particular flame thread, I'm led to</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> believe there are Net and FreeBSD ports to m68k.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>There is an OpenBSD post to the M68k platform. As an interesting side note, </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>the packages for the M68k platform work on a number of different hardware </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>platforms. My HP300 uses the same M68k packages as the Macs and a couple of </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>other machines from memory. </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT SIZE="3">Yeah, I think it works on a pile of chips made by HP, Atari, Amiga etc. (I'm not sure if they all have comparable motorolla chipsets or not). But they are there in the compatability list.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> After all there only terminals, so surely a purer ssh would be good.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> or at the very least, install a better ssh client (one that does</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> colours), and perhaps nsca mosaic (if it still exists) to do X</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> forwarding.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>You clearly have not tried this. Let us just say that well, any graphical </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>web browser generates a lot of X traffic. And well, ssh has to encrypt all</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>this traffic. Running on a slow CPU, the time required to encrypt and decrytpt</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>X traffic is significant. The HP300 I use has a 50MHz 68030 and this gave </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>rather sluggish X performance when using X forwarding and SSH. I don't want to</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>think about this with anything slower. </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT SIZE="3">I wasn't suggesting X over ssh (that WOULD be evil and slow). However a better ssh client then niftyTelnet would be nice. Considering the macs are coloured a telnet/ssh client capable of ansi colours would be very convienient (especially for BitchX ;)</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE="3">Mosaic is a program I came across in the NSCA tools that were originally on my mac when I acquired it. However it is not actually the program I was thinking of, as Mosaic is a primative webbrowser.</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE="3">I'm sure there must be a program able to run X on a mac display (under macOs) similar to winaXe (and other such programs) for putting X on windows.</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE="3">Still it would be fun to port a few of them to a range of distros/platforms. Considering that would give them very nice telnet/ssh facility, and would give them full colour capability, and maintain the usefulness of the terminal for when all the door members deceide they have to go to class.</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE="3">--davYd</FONT>
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