[rescue] Favorite Terminals

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 05:59:26PM -0400, dave at cca.org wrote:
> mcguire at neurotica.com writes:
> 
> >  Sounds like the ELC is just the ticket, man.  It's trivial to turn
> >them into X-terminals.  There was a package called "Xkernel" many
> >years ago, dunno if it's still around.  We built Digex's staff network
> >around Sun3/50, Sun3/60, and Sun3/140 machines booting from a Sun4/380
> >based on that package.  They worked very, very well.
> 
> I've been planning on filling my 4/380 with 300 boards and running
> IP over the backplane. Seems like a fun project.

What do you have to do to make that work?  Can you use 600 boards?  I
saw a paper on the topic, but it was theoretical piece describing a
protocol for doing so, rather than describing a package to download
and install.

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Joshua D. Boyd