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In article <petav.703443498@e20.physik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, petav@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peter Averkamp) writes:
> 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.

 
> 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.

While this is tru, the 2000 is pretty underpowered for this function. A better
solution might be the DEC EWS X termnial software. It uses the 2000 as an X
terminal by booting a VAXeln system over the net. It is the same software used
for the VT1300 X terminal.

It works pretty well, but there are memory limitations since VAXeln is not a
virtual memory system. I use this product.

I don't know if the 2000 is supported for the DEC VXT2000 product, but, if it
is, this is a much better product since it does support virtual memory and
boots off of an InfoServer. I don't have this product, but I have played around
with it at DECUS.

R. Kevin Oberman			Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Internet: oberman1@llnl.gov		(510) 422-6955

Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing
and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.