Hello Doug,

  DAT> I use my old hardware as thin clients and run the apps
     > themselves on my big Athlon box.

I have done something similar experimentally as a 'proof of concept'.
Ideally I would like the graphical terminals to run from a read-only
filesystem.  Do you have the terminals automatically connect to the
Athlon host, perhaps to present a selection of icons for available
application programs?

- Andy Ball