Hello!
It does sound like a good idea. Now you've got me wondering just how
many Sun3s and Sun4s are still working out there. (Operating System to
be chosen by the owner and operator.)

And I agree regarding Linux and networking and XKernel. I do know that
Tux got networking around the 2.xx kernel, but it was decidedly
primitive. Ethernet arrived around the time of the middle kernels, but
don't hold me to that.

I am hoping to try out some ideas concerning what we've been throwing
around here as soon as space becomes available.

I believe the pages for building XKernel can be found on the Etherboot
pages as links.
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Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-vax-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:port-vax-owner@NetBSD.org]
On
> Behalf Of Jason Thorpe
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 5:07 PM
> To: Gregg Levine
> Cc: Johnny Billquist; Dave McGuire; port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: current port-vax status
>=20
>=20
> On Mar 7, 2006, at 8:28 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
>=20
> > 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.
>=20
> Aw geez, I used XKernel on a Sun3 before Linux even had networking
> capability...
>=20
> > 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.
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> 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
:-)
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> -- thorpej