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.