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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!dde!kim
- From: kim@dde.dk (Kim Andersen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Running HP 700/RX on mixed environment
- Keywords: X
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.200158.26712@dde.dk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 20:01:58 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.163121.5126@nuscc.nus.sg> <43777@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S
- Lines: 46
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- xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan19.163121.5126@nuscc.nus.sg> eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (Tan Jin Meng) writes:
- >>Will there be a problem running the HP 700/RX in a mixed environment.
- >>Use a RS/6000 as a boot server and run X clients on Sparcs.
-
- >I think that the HP X terminals only boot from a Sun or an HP. You
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- This is WRONG.
- I boot my 700/RX from a Supermax without any problems.
- (You never heard of a Supermax computer ?
- It's a R3000/R4000 based multi cpu machine.)
- The only difficulty was is getting the software, as the local HP office
- only had it on a HP streamer tape.
-
-
- >can run X programs from your Sun, but you must remember that most of
- >the Sun programs are NOT X programs. These programs only work on a
- >Sun... :-( Of course, I remember the X conference a few years ago
- >at MIT where the Sun rep was boo'ed off the stage...
-
- >>Any good (or bad) things to say about this line of X Terminals?
-
- >A very fast terminal. Works great, with no problems either booting
- >from a Sun or from the HP. The flight simulator acm runs fast
- >across the network to the X terminal :-) Easy to set up too!
-
- I agree.
-
-
- >By the by, acm is remarkably similar to the SGI flight simulator,
- >but runs in the X environment. Just as fast, too!!!!
-
- >>I would like to know this in evaluating a potential purchase.
-
- >I'd buy another (and probably will)...
-
- >Tony Burzio
- >Arete Associates
- >San Diego, CA
-
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- Kim Andersen @ Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark.
- E-mail: kim@dde.dk or ...!uunet!mcsun!dkuug!dde!kim
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