Hi !

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 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 :)

A very fine solution for this is the following collection of equipment:
Take some VAXstations, build a pile of them :-)
Take a DECserver 200 (or better), connect all serial consoles of the VAXen
to it
Take a DEC VXT-2000, and talk to the DECserver via LAT. This works very fine,
you can even open some xterm or so from a VAX on this DECserver. With the
DECserver 300, you can even talk to the serial ports via TCP.

So, wasn't X created to pile up several xterms? *eg*

...Michael

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