You wrote (in your message from Mon  8)
 > 	I think there are two issue here - multiple text consoles, and
 > 	multiple X servers.
 > 
 > 	Personally I'd like multiple text consoles on the vt320 on one
 > 	of my sparcs - it would be nice if the virtual terminals support
 > 	was architecture independant.

You can do that  whith window(1) which is part of NetBSD or with GNU
screen. Latest screen version is 3.6.2 and it's available from
prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/screen-3.6.2.tar.gz. 


					Matthieu