A few different things (X terminals)

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_at_infinet.com>
Date: Tue Jul 28 22:54:10 1998

Ward Griffiths wrote:
> Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote:
> >
> > >I also ran across an HP 700/x X-Terminal. Does anybody know anything about
> > >these?
>
> 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.

Not in my experience. I have a couple of HDS terminals. They are inert.
The system that used to feed them (via tftp) was culled for free space about
two weeks before I inquired. :-( We abandoned some NCR X-terms at work
because we didn't want to bother to set them up under Solaris (from an
ancient AT&T StarServer). In both cases, the ROMs only knew enough to
load an image from a LAT server or something similar.

If anyone has an old HDS image lying around, I'd love to test out my terminal.

-ethan
Received on Tue Jul 28 1998 - 22:54:10 BST