Subject: Re: VAXStation 100?
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/20/2002 17:22:35
On June 20, Chuck McManis wrote:
> Ok, so I just picked up a VAXStation 100. It looks a lot like a MicroVAX
> 200 in a different box, but there is conflicting information about it on
> the net. Is it just a "terminal" that happens to be a VAX (sort of the
> predecessor to the VXT?) or what? I'm going to look through my collection
> of CONDIST's to see if I can find VAX Display Services and install them on
> one of my VMS machines.
If memory serves, the VAXstation-100 is an M68K-based graphics
terminal that connects to the host system via a fiber-optic link. The
host interface is a board that plugs into the backplane of a
VAX-11/750; I don't believe any other system was supported.
Or am I thinking of a different box?
-Dave
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