Subject: Re: DS 5000/200: should I get one cheap?
To: Sean Berry (most of the time) <spberry@iastate.edu>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
List: port-pmax
Date: 09/13/1996 14:52:58
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:13:25 CDT  Sean Berry wrote:

> 
> >On Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:01:33 -0700  Jonathan Stone wrote:

Hmm, I wrote this, not Jonathan...

> Seems we've got a whole damn campus covered with the things, and DEC doesn't
> want them back.  :)  Anything we can do (and we are, really) to make them
> more usable by the students is going to be a win.  (I want one for home to
> play with).
> 
> *end ramble*

If you've got a good graphics card (pretty much anything except a
PMAG-B (cfb)) then they make reasonable Xterms.  However, only the
Ultrix X server supports all the accelerated features of the other
cards, so NetBSD wouldn't help with this...

Simon.