From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] X on Plan 9
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 20:11:42 -0400
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Russ Cox wrote:

> > Going the other way round might be interesting - X client running on
> > UNIX box and acting as 9P server. I.e. exporting an equivalent of
> > /dev/cons, /dev/consctl, vga(3), mouse(3) and draw(3). For one thing,
>
> Umm, this is drawterm by another name, no?

Hmm... Aside of the access to local fs it's pretty much close. I've
never tried to install CPU server on a headless box, but this combination
sounds like a good idea. Thanks...