On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Mr. Seagraves inquired of the assembled masses
thusly:
> I've noticed all this time that DECwindows is on this MV3100.
> What is it? It it like Macro$oft's windows, or Xwindows?
> And when it says "display device", what is it expecting, a Tek
> terminal, or VT of some sort, or some special adapter?
DECwindows is an X-window system workalike that runs on both VAXen
and DEC's RISC platforms. It's merely a way for a client program
running on one machine to display its graphics on a server running
on another machine (Warning: in X terminology, "server" and "client"
seem reversed - you sit in front of the server while the client shoves
graphics data at you; the "client" does the applications processing).
The two are somewhat compatible. I have a pal in Providence who
has a VAX-11/750 and DECwindows, I have a Linux box at home running
an X server. We were able to get an X session set up with a client
running on his VAX to display on my machine; the network transport
was CMU/IP for the VAX, standard TCP/IP at the Linux end. Yes, it
was slow as a dog, especially as I have a 14.4 kbps modem, but it
_did_ work. Fun stuff.
Cheers.
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Received on Sun Nov 16 1997 - 07:47:27 GMT