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To: Pierre who wrote (8760)	4/3/1998 1:06:00 AM
From: Scott McPeely	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

By defintion a NC performs local processing. So by saying "just get the real work off loaded to a server - a Unix server" means you want to see terminals and not NC's. The problem here at Sun is that we cannot deliver a desktop-workstation combo that is competitive to Wintel. Thus, we are unable to expand the market for unix servers outside its core strengths. Look at what they say about our workstations in comp.unix.solaris: > we just received a few Ultra-10 machines which are equipped > with 21-inch monitors and the standard PGX graphic chip. > We are _very_ disappointed with the resulting display quality, > which, IMO, is inferior to far less expensive PC displays. > > This seems to be an issue of video signal quality: edges between > black and white are not sharp, but are smeared out to the right, > which gives dark text on white background a fuzzy and "dirty" look. > This is not the monitor's fault, because the monitor gives an > excellent picture when hooked to a Sparc-5. I'm glad it's not just me. I too had noticed this - exactly the same effect on our new Ultra-5. Not only that, it automatically came up at 1152x900x66 rather than 1280x1024x76. m64config seemed to fix that up, but it still seems to be flickering at 66Hz when not running an X server (and you can still see the shadows on the text). ********************************************************************

To: Pierre who wrote (8760)	4/3/1998 1:23:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Twister and Bill Grates (A.K.A. Scott McPeely) subscribe to the notion that Microsoft's OS for dumb-ass business appliances will somehow transform itself into a thin-fat-server-client-term thus obviating the need to modernize with Java, JavaOS, Java Beans and Enterprise Java Beans. In truth, Microsoft will be forced to accept massive reductions in the price of their OS and make-work products such as Microsoft Office. I wonder how many managers are actually aware of how much money they waste beta testing Microsoft's latest experiment in bloatware? It's going to get ugly :)