> So, some months ago, I was in an electronics surplus store and picked > up what was obviously an X terminal - tiny metal slab with a VGA > connector, serial & parallel, AT keyboard, and RJ45 "communication" > port. [...] > To throw an extra mysterious wrinkle into this, when I popped open the > case to get a look at the PCB, I found that, apart from the CPU, DART, > and ROM, the only non-glue ICs on the board were an 8K SRAM and a > W82C476 RAMDAC - but 8K isn't even remotely enough for a VGA screen, > not even a monochrome one at VGA resolution! Am I missing something on > how these things operated?
It might be text only. There's a mention in InfoWorld 11/18/91: "Maxspeed corp. has introduced a controller to connect a 386 or 486 running a multiuser operating system to eight of the company's MaxStation base units. The $1,495 SH-8 MaxStation Controller is scheduled to ship at the end of this month." From that era it could simply be 80x25. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- If you're not very clever, you should be conciliatory. -- Benjamin Disraeli