Subject: Re: New guy...
To: NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
From: Ken Seefried <ken@seefried.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/25/2001 15:02:17
NetBSD Bob writes:

>> also, if you run 4.3BSD on the machine, you can run X on that GPX :-) 
>> isildur
> 
> My BA23 MVII has that board set (had it, I removed them).  I can't
> imagine trying to run X on an MVII.... like open a window, go out
> for coffee, open up a second window, go out for coffee.....(:+\\.... 
> 

We did it at GaTech; there were a bunch of MVII/GPX under 4.3 when I was 
there.  Wasn't that bad, depending on what else you were doing with the 
machine.  Of course, the X11 of the day was an awful lot lighter weight than 
what we have today, as was the Unix. 

YMMV. 

Ken Seefried, CISSP