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

Why reinvent the wheel?  DEC has X for both Ultrix and VMS.  I'm running
Motif under VMS on my VS2000.  I boot from another node, and it's a
problem to fit everything on an RD54 (VMS no longer fits on an RD53).
That's why I boot elsewhere :)

As for the power of the 2000, I have a GPX machine, and I personally
think it's fast enough, as long as you don't plan on doing too many
things.

I run (locally) a couple of DECterms, calendar, calculator, clock,
xcmap, sunclock, and of course the session manager.  Sometimes I even
have xroach running, and a girlfriend logged in remotely.  Also, I run
ucx, with a finger daemon.

In addition, I usually have a couple of terminals coming from somewhere
else.

Yes, a 2000 is plenty powerful for a personal workstation displaying
windows.  If you want to do development on your workstation, get
something bigger :)

BTW: I have 16MB of physical memory.  That helps alot.  With 8MB or
less, you're outta luck.

	Darrin
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