Tektronix Terminal Emulation

Douglas Taylor dj.taylor4 at comcast.net
Sat Mar 11 19:19:36 CST 2017


On 3/11/2017 4:11 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
>>
>> I can't run  DecWindows on a MicroVax II with 11MB of memory, so I 
>> loaded
>> the basic support files for DecWindows.
>
> Are you sure?
>
> I can run the old XUI DecWindows on VMS 5.5-2 (the newest VMS that 
> will support
> XUI) in monochrome on a VaxStation 2000 with just 6MB.  It's not very 
> fast
> but it works.  As far as I recall, it worked in colour when it had a 
> GPX card
> installed.
>
> Regards,
> Peter Coghlan

You know, I don't actually know...

I have run DecWindows from a microVax 4000-400 with ~350MB of memory.  I 
assumed that the burden would be too much for the smaller Vax.



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