On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Chuck McManis wrote:

> At 02:34 PM 6/29/00 -0400, Andrew Sporner wrote:
> >I agree here about exporting, but if you have a hugh piece of
> >glass sitting on top of the machine it kind of seems like a
> >waste.  My only vax has a serial console, so I can ONLY export
> >to another X Server.
> 
> 
> Andy hit it right on the head. Huge 21" DEC monitor showing an 80 x 24 line 
> screen _is_ a waste. We should mention in the VAX NetBSD page that X11 is 
> *not* supported displaying on the local framebuffer. (How to phrase that I 
> don't know, we can't say X11 isn't supported at all because it is, etc)

	Doesn't wscons support different font sizes and text resolution?
	Having enough columns to run window(1) with two 80 column windows
	side by side would make console usage much more interesting until
	X comes along :)


		David/absolute
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