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The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals

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110 points zdw | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 03:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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somat ◴[23 Jun 25 13:25 UTC] No.44355587[source]▶
The tricky thing about justifying an X terminal is that it requires a nice graphics system and probably a nice cpu to drive that graphics system as well, so really the only thing you don't need is storage. basically it is hard to save money because you are buying most of a nice computer anyway.
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1. siebenmann ◴[23 Jun 25 23:15 UTC] No.44361189[source]▶
In 1989, the costs appear to have been significantly different, although on a casual search I don't see list prices for eg then-older Sun models like the 3/60. A brand new Sparcstation 1 (also 1989) was far more expensive than an NCD 16 or NCD 19, and a diskless Unix workstation would need more server support and disk space than an X terminal. Today is a different thing, but that's because PC prices have dropped so dramatically.