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X compatibility

Although it says in the article that 'Sun developed the separate secure bitmap-based network protocol "ALP" (Appliance Link Protocol) for the Sun Ray system', I wonder if these little machines can do plain old X-forwarding, without using the proprietary and possibly limiting Sun Ray Server software.

Sun Rays require Sun Ray Server Software. And SRs and SRSS talk to each other using ALP. --Toomuchham 21:12, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, do you also have to have a smartcard for these little machines to function, or can it also do without ?

As the article mentions, you can use SRs without smart cards. But using smart cards adds a level of authentication/security to your network. --Toomuchham 21:12, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Video performance

How well does the SunRay protocol/server software handle streaming of videos and flash content ? More specifically, would streaming a 640*480 movie at 24bpp be too much to ask ?

It's surprisingly good, especially with SRSS 3.1, which is much less of a bandwidth hog than its predecessors. Flup 10:41, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

deja vu :-)

the link for

"Appliance Link Protocol"

in this article links back to...this article.

it would be nice to have some detail on ALP either in this article or a separate one. a comparison with VNC would be especially welcome.

thanx -ef —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.38.203.239 (talk) 13:44, 4 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Sadly, ALP is currently a proprietary/private protocol. Hence, any public detailed descriptions of ALP or comparisons to VNC is not (legally) possible. Toomuchham 23:54, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Succession" text

So the JavaStation mention has been reworded to provide more background detail. The problem is, this reads like very obviously like editor expertise and not like it's from a source. Any official documentation on the history of Sun's diskless workstations? Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 21:33, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, but official's not a secondary source, now is it? :-) Added a news article for citation.--NapoliRoma (talk) 22:26, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sun diskless workstations go back to the Sun 1 and Sun 2 (68010) days, and got more popular with Sun 3 (68020) machines. That was when disks were big and expensive, and so diskless workstations saved a lot of money. Also NFS was designed with diskless workstations in mind. Gah4 (talk) 06:42, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In Computer History Museum

We should present a reference that a NeWT is in the CHM's collection. Searching their collection on the website, I can find a stand for the NeWT here and a purple thing they describe as a "Sun Ray prototype" here. Are we claiming that the purple thing is a NeWT? -- Finlay McWalter ☻ Talk 11:39, 19 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oracle

Since Sun is now owned by Oracle, that should be reflected in the article text. --HelgeStenstrom (talk) 12:35, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Now included in the lede and infobox. No objection if anybody wants to try improving the lede or more explicitly mention the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. jæs (talk) 16:52, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]