LOL. What's old is new again, mate. When I worked at Shell in 1989 and 1990 we were going to throw out Sun 3 desktops as underpowered and useless. Instead I convinced them to recycle the 3/50s and 3/60s as X terminals by replacing init and booting straight into X. You could use local X terms and telnet (ssh? what's that?) to systems, but we found it was faster to use XDM and supply the desktop from a server like a Sun 4/280.
I would kill to have a modern-day equivalent of the native UNIX desktop I had on a 4/110 after we ditched the 3/50's: the system had two frame buffers and you could switch between desktops by crossing the desktop boundary in any direction. Probably easier to just use two screens these days but at the time that meant putting two extremely large and deep CRTs on your desk.
Here we are 25 years later and xterm+ssh is still the easiest way to get my UNIX work done even if everything else (e-mail, productivity apps) is in Windows. Where's my modern-day NCD X terminal equivalent and unix desktop?
I would kill to have a modern-day equivalent of the native UNIX desktop I had on a 4/110 after we ditched the 3/50's: the system had two frame buffers and you could switch between desktops by crossing the desktop boundary in any direction. Probably easier to just use two screens these days but at the time that meant putting two extremely large and deep CRTs on your desk.
Here we are 25 years later and xterm+ssh is still the easiest way to get my UNIX work done even if everything else (e-mail, productivity apps) is in Windows. Where's my modern-day NCD X terminal equivalent and unix desktop?