nanogui: 286 as xterm?
Subject:
RE: [nanogui] 286 as xterm?
From:
"Darran D. Rimron-Molloy" ####@####.####
Date:
2 Sep 2002 17:33:18 -0000
Message-Id: <1030988263.4255.1.camel@jennifer.lan.rushmere.intra.route.me.uk>
On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 15:42, Simon Wood wrote:
> Hi Luigi,
> In theory you could build a 'distro' that used ELKS (with networking)
> and Nano-x to use a remote nx-term - you will need to use Alex's patched
> nano-x which can use tcp/ip networking.
Messy and slow.
> Have you though about using VNC???
> You can set up vncserver to present xdm on a number of virtual X sessions
> and then use a VNC client to connect to these.
or inetd spawn it
> How do you run VNC on a 286??
Probably not - can you run VNC on raw DOS? (as elks networking ain't so
special - last time I looked, it never worked)
> Please note I have not tried this, it is only a sugestion.... and probably
> has a number of security flaws.
A company (Star Networks or similar - they make Xwin32 iirc) made a
freely available DOS based x server.... Here endeth my knowledge
-cheers, Darran
