Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site wdl1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!fortune!wdl1!jbn From: jbn@wdl1.UUCP Newsgroups: net.graphics Subject: Re: V distributed graphics Message-ID: <815@wdl1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 03:38:56 EST Article-I.D.: wdl1.815 Posted: Wed Oct 30 03:38:56 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 09:03:33 EST Sender: notes@wdl1.UUCP Organization: Ford Aerospace, Western Development Laboratories Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:rocheste:-1263100:wdl1:14000010:000:523 Nf-From: wdl1!jbn Oct 29 19:30:00 1985 The V kernel is a scheme for supporting very intelligent terminals using a large host as a master machine. It's a lot like the support for the Teletype 5620 in system V; you download editors and graphics packages, but anything big is done in the host. The terminal at Stanford is typically an early-model diskless SUN, and the host is typically a VAX running UNIX. It's a interesting idea technically, but the machine it runs on is powerful to act as a workstation in its own right, so why bother? John Nagle