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redmill@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu (Keith A. Redmill) writes:

>In our department we have several Vaxstation 2000 machines (running VMS 5.3)
>that should make excellent xwindows terminals.  We talked to our DEC
>salesrep about this and apparently DEC has produced an Xwindows package,
>but he doesn't know anything about it.

>Has anyone installed and used this or other xwindows packages?
>Does decus or some other organization have an xwindows implementation
>  the would run on our hardware?

No problem, MIT X11 supports the vax2000 video.
I don't know if there is any problem with VMS, but on
Ultrix (4.1) i have an MIT X11 server working just fine.
If all you want to do with it is converting it to an
X-terminal then Ultrix should fit on a RD53.
There may be a problem with the screen saver using
an unsupported framebuffer feature on very old hardware,
but i've done the necessary source changes. (and only faint memory
where they reside...) Anyway, if you decide to build your X11 and 
get trouble with this, i think i can help you out.

 - Peter -


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