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Re: Running PC XT as a terminal for Linux



On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, Bekman Stas wrote:

> Hi,
> I want to connect one terminal to my PC (486-DX4) with Linux running as a
> server. So, I have an XT PC. Does it good enough? I mean does XT have enough
> resources to run as a terminal? (memory 64k?) 
> Now, What How-to recover this topic (terminals: hardware & software)?

I did that with a simple serial cable, running MSKERMIT on
the XT machine, and "agetty -L" in /etc/inittab (RTFM).
Work greate.

Bye.

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