A few different things

From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter_at_shell.monmouth.com>
Date: Wed Jul 29 05:20:01 1998

>
> 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.

Most of the ones I've used (IBM, NCD, HP) tftp or nfs load their
image and must boot from a server.

Some have telnet support built into rom for troubleshooting.
I believe the HP does vt100 telnet emulation and has some setup in rom.

Bill

Bill

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