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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!world!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!usenet From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Network Dumb Terminal? Date: 29 Apr 1996 13:30:26 GMT Organization: ABWAM, Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4m2g9i$4qr@hops.entertain.com> References: <4lemh8$7d6@its.hooked.net> <4m1qju$nrt@itchy.serv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.45.153.241 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 In article <4m1qju$nrt@itchy.serv.net>, zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) says: > >In article <4lemh8$7d6@its.hooked.net>, Matt Clark <mclark@hooked.net> wrote: >>Ok. Here Is What I Want To Do: I want to have an old Compaq 386/sx do a >>remote boot off of my FreeBSD server and then act like a dumb terminal >>without >>having to load the a complete kernel (640k of ram can't do much), IE act like >>a serial dumb terminal but use my mini-LAN at home. Is this possible? > > >I'm sure I'll get flamed for not recommending a FreeBSD-based solution, >but... > >Why can't you run NCSA telnet under DOS with a tcp/ip stack? > Eeeewww! Actually, I am dealing with the same kind of issue. A 386 is plenty of horse power for a text session that gives me net access... I just hate to depend on DOS for anything...