Subject: Re: current port-vax status
To: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/08/2006 05:19:56
Aren't we just talking about an X-terminal here? DEC made those almost 
20 years ago. Everything in firmware even.
That's how you play X against a big VAX. :-)

	Johnny

Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Rhialto wrote:
> 
>> Stuff can be made fairly minimal - I have a stripped down NetBSD/sun3 to
>> run as an X server and nothing else (netbooting). There is not even an
>> init binary: it has been replaced by a shell script.
> 
> 
>   Mmm, sounds like Xkernel. :-)  I ran an office full of those years 
> ago.  Very cool indeed.
> 
>          -Dave
> 
> -- 
> Dave McGuire
> Cape Coral, FL
> 

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