beck@obtuse.com said:
>                                              3/50's make a decent 
> xterminal particularly if you can find a monitor in good shape - 
> crisp black and white is still very nice and easy on the eyes. I have 
> a ViewSonic P815 21" monitor on my intel stuff at home and I still 
> find myself frequently using the X head on a sun 3 for working on - 
> and getting someone to recondition (or reconditioning yourself) a 
> bigassed sun 3 monitor is a damn sight cheaper than a decent big PC 
> monitor, and a great poor-mans alternative if you work most of your 
> time in X.

I'm reading this whilest sitting in front of a diskless 3/60 running 
Seth Robertsons XKernel (ftp://ftp.ctr.columbia.edu/pub/Xkernel/).

XKernel runs atop a suppled minimalist SunOS 4.1.1_U1 kernel and with
a bit of hacking around can be made to work with a NetBSD kernel and
NetBSD compiled Xsun,  although the performance of the X server 
seems better with SunOS.  Unfortunately I cant try it with a local 
disk as the SCSI bus seems to be fried on this machine :-(

I agree though, it makes an excellent (and very inexpensive) X terminal,
which is refreshingly reliable compared to the crappy Win'95 box sitting
next to it.

  -- john.

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                                                            William John Hulley
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