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Paul Weaver wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 12:35:53AM +0100, James Fidell wrote: >> Before that (and before most people had probably heard of the interweb), >> there were things like X terminals -- little boxes with a display and a >> copy of the X server in a PROM. Everything you ran had to come from a >> centrally-managed server somewhere (and be stored on one, too). Give me >> a wifi X terminal now and I could probably do 99.9% of my usual work in >> the same way as I already do. Brilliant idea, so where are they now? > > My Sister is a civilian for West Mercia police, she uses somethign > called a "Win Term", something like > http://wyse.vecmar.com/winterm/products/productpage.asp?pid=6814 > I'd imagine. She says they're great with the weather at the moment :) Given that it's running embedded windows, a "slightly chubby" client, perhaps? :) Seems like a good idea, though. James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html