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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: 0.344s | source
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dfox ◴[23 Jun 25 10:05 UTC] No.44354046[source]▶
As for NCD X terminals (at least the later ones), surprising amount of stuff could run directly on the terminal (which ran some weird MMU-less BSD variant): mwm and motif session manager, dtterm-like terminal with telnet and serial port support, some kind of JVM and two different variants of mosaic were part of the SW package (it booted either from flash PC card or from NFS).
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shrubble ◴[23 Jun 25 22:41 UTC] No.44360944[source]▶
I believe some used Intel i860 processors; not sure the MMU was integrated into it or not.
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1. dfox ◴[24 Jun 25 00:06 UTC] No.44361505[source]▶
The one I still probably have somewhere has PowerPC and S3 video card.