Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote:
>
> > I also ran across an HP 700/x X-Terminal. Does anybody know anything about
> > these? It looks like it will run a standard 15-pin VGA monitor. It's dirt
> > cheap and I'd LOVE to have an another xterm around the house. Any info?
> They're pretty nice. They should run 1024x768 SVGA's without too much
> problem. They use an keyboard that looks like an HP PS/2 keyboard.
>
> I don't know where you'd get the software for it -- perhaps HP still
> supports it or makes it downloadable from the net.
It should take standard X instructions from damned near anything, be
it Solaris, HP/ux, AIX, Linux or even AT&T Unix. Without docs it
might be tricky to set up the networking -- that's one place where X
terminal manufacturers never got even close to concensus. But the
ROM should have the needed X-server code.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram_at_cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Tue Jul 28 1998 - 20:56:17 BST