My question is whether there is a 'mass market' for this? Do schools have a large supply of 286 (or even 386) machines sitting in cupboards that could usefully be used as X terminals??
We find the sceen update speed just too slow on slow processors. It's OK on a static page, but you just get a web page with lots of moving GIFs and your local processor spends so much time processing the screen updates the mouse slows down to moon speed (ie move it, wait a minute, move it etc). We are now junking 486-33's because of this. 486-50's and 66's are still OK, but p-166's with 16M RAM are now our thin-client minimum. Windows that take ages to redraw when you move them are now becoming unacceptable. But this is running an X server on them, not VNC. -- Christopher Dawkins, Felsted School, Dunmow, Essex CM6 3JG 01371-822698, mobile 07816 821659 cchd@felsted.essex.sch.uk