25 Oct
1999
25 Oct
'99
1:16 p.m.
What is a VXT 2000+?
It's an X-terminal.
It has 18 meg or ram. It comes up with VXT V1.5
followed
by 08-00-2B-37-70-4A. The configuration indicates that it has 8 plane Low Res
4 Megpixel FB which I assume is the graphics configuration.
"08-00-2B-37-70-4A" is the hardware Ethernet address. The VXT 2000+
loads its software over the Ethernet at power on. To quote from the
VXT release notes:
VXT software is installed on a load host and downloaded
into the VXT 2000[+], VXT 2000, or VT1300 X terminal; the
VXT software license applies to the X terminal on which the
software is executed, not to the host CPUs in the network.
The release notes then go on to specify how to install the software on the
following different systems - I imagine other network-capable systems
are easily done as well:
o VXT Software on InfoServer Systems
o VXT Software on OpenVMS Systems
o VXT Software on DEC OSF/1 AXP Systems
o VXT Software on ULTRIX Systems
o VXT Software on SunOS Systems
o VXT Software on HP-UX Systems
o VXT Software on IBM AIX Systems
o VXT Software on SCO ODT Systems
The software installation kit now appears on the OpenVMS Freeware
CD-ROM set, and you can grab it over the net from:
ftp://openvms.digital.com/vxt/
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