On Mar 7, 2006, at 8:28 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:

> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> Um not really. The XKernel concept was exactly as Dave describes. It
> had the user set things up so that a Sun3 or Sun4 would work as an X
> terminal for a box running Linux.

Aw geez, I used XKernel on a Sun3 before Linux even had networking  
capability...

> Now such an idea has become something of an extinct animal. I'm not
> even sure its possible to build the binaries for XKernel. But finding
> the hardware, a Sun3 or Sun4 should be relatively simple. Of course
> I'd like to get the VAX Station I've got here working, but that's a
> story for a new thread.

It might be a nice exercise to have a pre-built "install sets" for X- 
terminal'ifying a Sun3 as a standard install option for NetBSD/sun3 :-)

-- thorpej