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Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [LTSP on 8086] help needed
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 11:22:16 +0200
From: Wouter DeBacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

On Thursday 30 May 2002 23:04, you wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:04:00AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Actually, there is no reason an 8086 couldn't run a TCP/IP
> > stack and a X server, just not the Linux kernel and XFree86.
> > There may even be some old and forgotten software out there
> > for 8086 PC's that provide some or all of this
> > functionality.
>
> Yes, but what performance would you have? Sounds more
> reasonable to try to get telnet working and use them as
> text-terminals. I think there are dos terminal emulators that
> can do telnet (kermit, and conex).

There is Caldera Dos which has both TCP/IP and a graphical
browser builtin. Don't know about telnet though ...

Regards,
Wouter DeBacker

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