Rick Engebretson wrote: > > In the 70s, one powerful computer ran many dumb video/keyboard terminals. > In the 80s we adopted the one computer to one terminal model and maintain > it today. Today, with personal computers so powerful, is there a way to > again run several dumb terminals from one computer ?? > > This approach seem made for Linux. Not everybody cares to edit video or > play games on a P4 machine. Offices, schools, etc. save money, energy, > space, and noise. > > I am trying to re-invent the past. Any ideas ?? > > Rick. > > This is pretty trivial. I did this for years with text terminals hooked to multiport serial cards. If you just want two terminals you can connect them to your standard two serial ports. Take a look at /etc/inittab and read up on mgetty. I used to use Cyclades 8 port cards for running banks of terminals. If you want to run graphical terminals it's probably the same cost as a text terminal at this point... Kent