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In article <1992Apr16.152215.15412@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu>, 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?

There is such a product.  It is called EWS and supports on a number of platforms. EWS turns a VAXstation <mumble> (including 2000s) into an X-Terminal by downloading a VAXeln system image (just like DEC terminal servers).  Local disks cannot be used with EWS.  

The only restriction is that the EWS image does not support X-server extentions
for PostScript and Phigs.  There is a shareware PostScript viewer called
GhostScript available which works just fine for displaying PostScript and 
GhostScript files.  I have installed and both products with great success.

If your Sales Rep still cannot find information on this product, have them get
in touch with me.
--
            Kent Sarff
      sarff@gsrc.enet.dec.com 
     Digital - Colo. Spgs., CO
Digital is blameless for my rambling