[rescue] The Terminals Wiki

Andrew Jones andrew at jones.ec
Wed Apr 11 11:59:50 CDT 2012


On 04/11/2012 12:43 PM, J. Alexander Jacocks wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Richard<legalize at xmission.com>  wrote:
> <snip>
>> Hopefully this is not considered off-topic for the rescue list.
>> Didn't Sun tape some diskless SPARCstations and sell them as X
>> terminals at one point?
>
> Yep, SPARC Classic X.  The service manual seems to be here:
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19127-01/sparc.classic/801-2176-13/801-2176-13.pdf
>

There was also the Sun X Terminal 1 (sun4m, SS4), the JavaStation 
abominations (sun4m, almost an SS4), and various software products.

I always thought the Xkernel was cool -- it was a SunOS 4 kernel + 
miniroot small enough to run entirely in RAM on an SLC/ELC, in order to 
turn it into an X term.


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