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

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sat Jul 27 11:48:52 CDT 2002


On July 27, Bill Bradford wrote:
> >   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.
> 
> Thats the SPARCCLassic X; there was also a castrated SS5 (no onboard
> SCSI) sold as an X terminal.

  Eeew.  I hadn't seen that one.

    -Dave

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