From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Gurin Subject: Re: 286 xterm? Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:17:36 -0400 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020905201736.GC10331@shot.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Robert de Bath Cc: Chad Page , Gavin , Linux-8086 - ELKS 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