Subject: Re: binary X distribution for NetBSD/hp300 wanted
To: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
List: port-hp300
Date: 05/14/1996 10:50:16
> jim@reptiles.org (Jim Mercer)  wrote:
>  > a friend of mine picked up 3 HP9000-360's, with color monitors.
> 
> <swoooon> My 19" color monitor seems to feel that blue is such a wonderful
> color that I should be seeing everything in a deeply intense blue... I've
> been waiting for someone around here to throw out another hp300 with one
> of those nice Sony's...

yeah, that's about what happened here, 3 units with 21" sony colors,
a couple disk cabinets (MFM) and some graphics tables.

got it for hte sum of $7 (gas money for the guy with the truck).

>  > i'm currently getting the binary distribution for NetBSD, but would
>  > eventually like o turn these beasties into Xterminals.
>  > 
>  > does anyone have a pre-compiled set of X binaries laying around?
> 
> on ftp.netbsd.org in pub/NetBSD/packages/binaries/NetBSD-1.0/m68k4k

mucho gratius.

has anyone put together a netboot Xkernel configuration?
if not, that's what i'm planning on doing, except it'll probably take several
days to do the X compile.  8^(

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