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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt article <65492@bu.edu.bu.edu>, eap@bu-pub.bu.edu (Eric Pearce) wrote:
: I installed the "convert your 6152 into an X-terminal" software
: without too much effort, but...

This is as good a time as any to bring it up...  has anyone else brought up
X11R4 on the 6152?  I ftp'd the distribution from expo and built it on our
RT 125, setting appropriate options and specifying a build for apa16 and vga
displays.  It works, pretty much.  However, there are  times when it
misbehaves.  For example, I may be using xeyes and it will leave trailing
eyeball bits.  This is using the X11R4 distributed xeyes and server.  This
isn't a serious problem and I haven't personally noticed any readily
reproducible bugs.  However, our department has talked to a couple of other
sites, and I've heard complaints that the server WILL lock when  using
Andrew on a fairly regular basis.  One systems person mentioned that he had
traced it to the server, and that there was a fairly large loop through
several major server routines in which the server would get locked.

Is anyone running Andrew on the 6152 under X11R4?  Any horror stories?  I'm
hesitant to recommend installing something which is known to be crashable.
On the positive side, the 6152 Xserver is a hell of a lot more reliable than
the piece of trash that IBM supplied with our RS/6000.  ;-)

Any comments appreciated.

... Joe

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