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From: kovar@popvax.harvard.edu (115800@David C. Kovar)
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Subject: Simple questions about Ultrix
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Date: 10 Jul 89 20:35:42 GMT
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  Good day,
  I've inherited two Vax 8200s, a VAXstation 2000, no software contract,
and no manuals to speak of. So, I've a few questions:

1) What type of terminal can the 260 monitor emulate? I've been told that
   it acts like a hardcopy terminal until you toss a window manager on it.
   It certainly refuses to emulate a VT100 or anything reasonable. Any
   fix for this?

2) Is there some standard window manager that comes with 3.0 that will
   run on the 2000? Yes, I'm aware of DecWindows but it is not on the
   system. I really want to be able to use all this window real estate
   in some reasonable way.

3) Can a DECstation (not VAXstation) 2000 with a 33MB disk run Ultrix?
   I assume that if it can run Ultrix off of a local disk it could
   behave as my VAXstation does and boot off of some other machine.

Thank you, in advance, for answering some very basic questions.


-David C. Kovar
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