From: SMTP%"tjl@siva.bris.ac.uk" 21-OCT-1994 15:44:58.21 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: Re: VAX 2000 ? No one wants it... X-Newsgroups: comp.os.vms From: tjl@siva.bris.ac.uk (Tim Llewellyn, (0272) 288738.) Subject: Re: VAX 2000 ? No one wants it... Message-ID: Sender: usenet@info.bris.ac.uk (Usenet news owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: siva.bris.ac.uk Reply-To: tjl@siva.bris.ac.uk Organization: Bristol University Physics Dept. Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 19:09:12 GMT Lines: 54 To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com X-Gateway-Source-Info: USENET In article <1994Oct20.193457.10540@cronkite.res.utc.com>, mainedw@hsdvxa.hsd.utc.com writes: >>Oliver Wrede (owrede@khm.uni-koeln.de) wrote: >>: Hi, >> [stuff about VS2000's deleted] > >The only use we have found for them is as x-terminals. Dusted off and booted >from an infoserver, they make decent monochrome x-terms. (Note: the x-term >software supports the monochrome controllers, but not all of the color ones >in the old boxes). This not only gives them Motif, but LAT, TCP/IP and DECnet >connectivity. You can't use them to do your internet serving, but someone >with a VT terminal on their desk might kill to get it. > >If you have an infoserver, you can manually boot it from the >>> with (you >type the UPPERCASE stuff) > > >>> BOOT/101 ESA0 > loadfile: VXTLDR > vxtldr> VXTMV0.SYS > You do have to load the VXT software onto your infoservre first! I assume someone else did this at your site. >We have a couple of dozen in use now, along with some Vt1300's that are also >dumb at boot time. I used the TEST 50 command to set the default boot device >to ESA0 and copied VXTLDR.SYS onto the VAX cluster. I defined them as nodes in >NCP with the hardware address and load file, so when they autoboot and scream >for a load, the vax gives them the first piece. The rest is automatic. > OK you found the quick and nasty way to set up a VMS system as the VXT MOP load host. I think the supported way is to install the VMS hosted VXT kit. btw I am interested you get VS2000's to work with the VXT. Have you (or anyone else) tried any VS3100's? What we use on our 3100's is EWS, VAXEln Window Server. This is supported for VS2000's also I think (we have no 2000's for some years, plenty of 3100 M38's though). It is true that the VXT server is far superior to EWS, which can only login directly to supported hosts (OpenVMS as Ultirx only, definitely not OSF/1). >Dale Maine ! -----------------------------------------------------+------------------+ Tim Llewellyn - OpenVMS, Soukous and Cricket Addict |Hey, and get wise | Physicist Programmer, Bristol Uni Particle Physics. | to the sounds of | HEPNET/SPAN 19716::TJL Internet tjl@siva.bris.ac.uk | Africa,seen. | I speak for me and noone else OK (and I might even | Soukous Makossa | change my mind sometimes!-) Atari and EMagic user too| Mbalax Rumba...| -----------------------------------------------------+------------------+ I neither love OpenVMS nor hate OSF/1, for they are both just tools I use