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From: avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Simple questions about Ultrix
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Date: 10 Jul 89 22:21:49 GMT
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In article <2195@husc6.harvard.edu> kovar@popvax.harvard.edu (115800@David C. Kovar) writes:
>
>  I've inherited two Vax 8200s, a VAXstation 2000, no software contract,
>and no manuals to speak of. So, I've a few questions:
>

What software is on these machines?

>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?

No smarts, running a window manager with terminal emulator fixes this.
(I am 90% sure of 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.

What *is* on the system?  3.0 is a version of ULTRIX, but not the
ULTRIX Worksystem Software (UWS).  Standard X11 from MIT will work 
as well.  You need some W/S S/W to be able to drive the graphics
screen.

>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.

The 33MB disk is too small to be used by the system, although you
could use it for /tmp and swap (for example). You can run diskless.
But as there is no such thing as a DECstation2000 so I am not sure to
what you refer. 

Fred