OFF: A different type of tape swap

[Paul Mather]

On Fri, 23 Jul 1999 niko.makila at NOKIA.COM wrote:

=> Hey x86's not that bad!  The bad thing is that no-one has written an OS that
=> uses the more sophisticated features (maybe because they're too slow...).

Not necessarily bad, but nonetheless a prisoner of the "golden
handcuffs" of backwards compatibility with its ancestors (8086, 80286,
80386, etc., all of which biased future development).

What I really meant was my systems were devoid of what people consider
ubiquitous: x86 architecture and Micro$oft software.  (Everyone runs
Windoze, right?;)  Maybe sometime soon they'll make it illegal *not* to
run Windoze on x86 platforms? ;-)

=> > We do have some Windoze (NT and 95) machines in our lab here, but they
=> > are inconvenient to use (i.e., you can't use them remotely).
=>
=> Check out http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ which claims to work on Win
=> (95, NT and CE), Mac, and several UNIXen.

Actually, I'd heard of VNC, because the *official* Unix bigot in our lab
(even more so than I appear to be:) used to insist that it be installed
on any Windoze machine he might potentially have to use (so he could
connect to his Unix box).  But, at that time, at least, I recall you
could only get a VNC *client* for Windoze, which is the opposite of what
I need.

Now, it seems, they have a VNC server for Windoze, albeit a
non-multiuser one (which is not very useful).  I'll give it a try...

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

"I don't live today; maybe tomorrow..."
        --- James Marshall Hendrix