On Thu, 4 May 2000, Chris Davies wrote:

Are there any UK firms which manufacture or sell these beasts and the required servers?

I don't know about this, but.....

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I've just successfully reverse engineered a Boundless Viewpoint terminal, which started life as a Windows Terminal Server client. Basically it's built from standard PC components (Its a pentium class processor, 8MB RAM, Cirrus Logic Graphics, NE2000 network on board, nothing too outlandish), and has a 4MB flash memory disk which it boots from. I mamaged to get a linux kernel on there, and persuaded it to network boot from another Linux machine. It's now happily running as an X terminal served by another machine on my network. With the addition of a bit more RAM it could actually be used as a full blown workstation. If anyone's interested in how I achieved this I'd be happy to document it. Also if anyone has any similar hardware that they'd like to try this with I'd be happy to work with you to produce a solution. It's such a shame when companies produce nice hardware like this and then spoil it byseverely restricting its potential :-) Actually I've just had a thought - if there are any schools out there who have large amounts of 386/486 PCs which are destined for the skip they could quite easily be configured in the same way to produce cheap graphical terminalsrunning from a central server. -- ___ _ In a world without fences - who needs Gates? | (_' M1CHW ._|on ._)tockill