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From: ephraim%TECHUNIX.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Ephraim Silverberg)
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Subject: Re: GP windows: What is it?
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Date: 16 Jul 89 07:45:51 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 73, message 1 of 19

In Volume 8, Issue 62, message 5 of 10, Jean Goulet writes:
>                                                         Are all Sun's
> 'equipped' with it (if it's hardware), or is it some software environment
> that has to be called up, like Suntools?

The GP family (GP1, GP+, GP2) are all hardware components that are
optional equipment on various Suns.  On machines that are equipped with
GP's, the superuser must create the appropriate devices by

                (cd /dev; MAKEDEV gpone)

before any GP demos/software will work.

Ephraim Silverberg
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