[rescue] All this talk of X Terminals has me wondering...

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sat Jul 27 10:53:23 CDT 2002


On July 27, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> Anyone have any info on the Sun X Terminals (SS/5 boxes) -
> specifically, I'd like to set it up for use, but I seem to recall
> support was dropped from Solaris for thes a few releases ago (2.6 or
> so?)...

  They're just SPARCclassic systems with castrated ROMs if memory
serves.  Why not just dig up the old Xkernel package and run a
"regular" SPARCstation as an X terminal?  I've built literally dozens
of those (in the early days of Digex, but with Sun3s) and they work
great.

     -Dave

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