Re: 286 xterm?

[Francois Gurin <matrix@spic.net>]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:45:39PM +0100, Robert de Bath wrote:
> 
> I suppose one solution to this might be to use the VNC protocol to display
> an X-terminal screen on an ELKS machine. You really wouldn't want to
> run X at 800x600 though 'cause it's been designed for megapixel displays
> (1024x768x1) from day one. Also 'cause VNC prefers truecolour displays
> the minimum depth is probably 8-bit; as I remember the 1Mb (1024x768x8)
> graphic cards were around at about the time of 286 but I don't suppose
> they're gonna be that fast ...
> 
> NB: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
> 
> Of course VNC needs ethernet too and I would expect that to be rather
> rare on a machine of that age.

is there a vnc version supporting <=386?  i seem to recall the dosvnc port
came precompiled 32bit but it's been a while.  as for bit depths, that can
be easily modified, i know some clients will dither down to 4-bit usefully.
(the palmos client comes to mind, it also had a server optimized for palm, 
but the client itself works fine with stock vncserver)

--francois