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On Wed, 2006-03-08 09:44:19 +0100, Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se> wrot=
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> The only difference from a VXT2000 that I can discern here is that these=
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> are based on Unix, while the VXT2000 (and 1200) were based on some DEC=20
> inhouse OS. Otherwise it sounds exactly the same.
> I can't remember if any of the VXT terminals were net-booted. They might=
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> have been. Others had the system in flash (I think it is).

At least the VXT2000+ doesn't have enough flash to hold the X
firmware. I do have such a machine, they're booted off the network.
(Even nowadays, they smoothly can use eg. a modern *BSD or Linux box
as a server.)

As they're VAX based, I tried to bring the Linux port onto my box. It
loads, but isn't really functional since there's currently no
(working) SGEC network driver.

> The VXT terminals had a VAX cpu. They might have been running VAXELN,=20
> but I'm not sure. Anyway, they booted their OS, and you got your=20
> X-terminal, from which you could start XDM connections to other=20
> machines. It also had a terminal program, within which you could start=20
> telnet sessions, LAT sessions, CTERM sessions, or speak on the actual=20
> serial port.

The latter is the best feature of those: you can use them as serial
terminals, too.  They can even run a printer to hard-copy the
stream:-)

MfG, JBG

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