On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Michael L. Hitch wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Marc Gutschner wrote:
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> > Anton J. Gamel wrote:
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> > >Has someone information/experience about VT1300 X-terminals?
> > >I have got three specified with VT1300 SPX ...
> > >The outfit is like a DECstation 3100 , 8Mb RAM, Mono (8pl 2D).
> > >The PROM version is KA42-A V1.6 (KN42-A V1.6?)
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> > Well, from the PROM-Version info I get the impression that you are aski=
ng
> > this question in the wrong list :-) AFAIK the 1300 series of X-Terminal=
s are
> > in fact VAXstations in disguise. There has been a bit of discussion abo=
ut
> > these particular beasts in the port-vax list some time ago. IIRC someon=
e has
> > managed to get one of these boot a NetBSD kernel...
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>   I think the VT1300 is basically a VAXstation 3100 (somewere around mode=
l
> 30, I think).
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> > >it seems that it can boot from Disk! But which OS??
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> >=20
> > Most likely they need some customized version of X11 (+ a minimal kerne=
l,
> > though I don=B4t know if that would be more like Ultrix or more like VM=
S :-))
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>   They normally boot a VAXeln X11 server image file from a boot host.
> If the VT1300 is really a 3100/30 board, it should be able to boot a
> 3100/30 NetBSD kernel as well, and presumably would have the 3100/30 SCSI
> adapter stuff.
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> Michael
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=09I had a couple VT1300s a few years ago and they would boot (and
run) Ultrix if I installed the VS3100 SCSI card. I think they are exactly
a VS3100 M30 with the SPX video card and no SCSI/SCSI adapter (at least
the ones I had none)=20

Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics