Clients, servers, and docking stations

[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?

[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.

[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.