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Clients, servers, and docking stations
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:27 pm
by Bookworm
Windows NT4 will use a second processor (supposedly very fast) if you have one. Can I get one on a PCI card and put it in a SelectaDock, or does it have to be on the motherboard?
Does anyone have a spare SelectaDock II laying around?
Does anyone here have any experience using a direct cable connection between two pcs - for example, a 760XD and a PC300PL - to expand one of the computers by giving it acces to all the features of the other?
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 5:17 pm
by tom lightbody
like yr menagerie
>direct cable connection
if you were running *nix, you could simply use the 760 as a serial terminal.
The 760 could run kermit, various operating systems.
or alternatively, several ideas: use NFS to mount the larger, faster drives onto
the other machine; or run the X-window system, that shows interactively on the one computer, what is actually being computed on the other.
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:07 pm
by Bookworm
I am running unix (OS-9, now called NitrOS-9, Level 2) on my Tandy Color Computer 3, and I intend to use the PC pile as a serial terminal.
Considering the amount of power available but wasted in a PC, they really aren't all that impressive compared to some of the classics, but on the other hand, you should see 8-bit internet software
Since I have to use a PC, I got one of the best (a ThinkPad) saved a lot of money (I use a TRS-80 and I'm supposed to care if me PC is old?) and I want to make it as powerfull as possible. The best ways to do that seem to be to expand it with a SelectaDock II (most slots, ports, etc.) and enslave a generic desktop (or two? or more?) for its ports and drives. Or maybe use it's more powerfull CPU etc. with the ThinkPads's video input, joysticks, midi, etc.
Maybe I'm getting a little carried away but if I have to use this thing, I might as well enjoy it.