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- From: iversen@dsfys1.fi.uib.no (Per Steinar Iversen)
- Subject: Re: VXT2000 and HP-VUE setup ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.153348.20053@alf.uib.no>
- Lines: 74
- Sender: iversen@vsfys1.fi.uib.no (Per Steinar Iversen)
- Reply-To: iversen@vsfys1.fi.uib.no
- Organization: Department of Physics, University of Bergen, Norway
- References: <BxvE1p.G45@itek.norut.no> <1992Nov18.045117.5121@modtor.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 15:33:48 GMT
- Lines: 74
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- In article <1992Nov18.045117.5121@modtor.uucp>, pz@modtor.uucp (Peter Ziobrzynski) writes:
- >
- >torstein@itek.norut.no (Torstein Meyer) writes:
- >
- >>Please,
- >>Could anyone out there please give me hints on setup or configuration.
- >>We're running HP-UX.
- >>We're running VXTMP0011B/VXTSP0011B
- >>We're needing installation, font-setup, tftp-setup, ... info
- >>What should we be aware of - pitfalls.
- >>You're advice would be appreciated.
- >>--
- >>Torstein Meyer (Sys.Cons.) +47 83 80150 (fax:82420)
- >> FORUT IT AS, NORUT-gruppen AS, N-9005 Tromsoe, Norway
- >>torstein.meyer@itek.norut.no
- >> C=no;A=;P=uninett;O=norut;OU=itek;CN=torstein.meyer
- >
- >
- >We just took an order of 8 of these terminals.
- >
- >After booting it over mop with 8 Mb RAM the terminals were crashing
- >regularly with register traces on screens. Any connection on LAT to Ultrix
- >or VMS were exhausting the machine resources.
- >We upgraded to 12MB. Now they do not crash in trivial connections
- >but always when we start the X sessions with mwm(1) and
- >set background to gif immage.
- >
- >General impression it that it is a very clumsy and unreliable
- >machine. The local setup software is awkward and slow. While
- >in connection with the xdm(1) the pulldown menus can take up to
- >5 sec to respond.
- >
- >We demonstrated and reported this to DEC and we hope to ship them back.
- >
- >We evaluated in detail NCD 19c. This box can run circles around
- >VXTs with 6Mb of RAM. The local setup software is very nice.
- >NCD has remote configurations dowloaded from asci files, etc....
- >
- >We are about to place order for 16 of NCD19cs.
- >
- >- peter
- >--
- >Peter Ziobrzynski, pz@modtor.uucp, peter@sni.ca, Toronto, Ont. Canada
- >
-
- I just tested the memory usage of a monochrome VXT2000 with 16Mb RAM by
- starting the memory-meter and then logging into a DECstation 5000/200 by xdm.
- I used mwm (1.1.3) as supplied by DEC. After logging in and starting the screen
- clock, session manager, xconsole and one dxterm I had 7828 Mb free.
- I then loaded a gif picture onto the root with xv, and went down to 7634 Mb
- free. As a further test I started 4 dxterms, one xterm, xdvi and ghostscript
- simultaneously and ended up with 7268 Mb free. All this should have worked
- on a 12 Mb box too. There is no problem at all with the response either, though
- the local window manager is slightly faster than using a remote manager. Are you
- sure that the terminals are correctly configured and that they are running
- the 1.1 version of the VXT software? My box get all its fonts by LAT, perhaps
- TFTP uses more memory?
-
- As you can guess I am happy with the hardware and software. Less so with the
- way DEC sold me the thing - somehow they forgot to mention one needs an
- expansion board for memory above 4 Mb, not just the memory itself... We had to
- pay extra to get that though the box was sold as a "complete".
-
- -psi
-
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