[H-GEN] Diskless boxes for internet access

[Steve Pinel]

>I'm inclined to agree.  X doesn't really use alot of cpu power (but it
>does use fpu power so make sure it is a 486DX).  A 486 should handle the
>load fine.

Is this at the workstation end, or on the X-client (server thingy)
>
>Further explanation on the fpu issue:  Font rendering does alot of
>floating point operations so an fpu (maths co-processor) is virtually a
>must for a lot of X work.  A font server might help.  
Please explain?  I assume that a font server is a piece of software on the
beasty bit of the network that does the processing on font mapping?

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