Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!eao From: eao@gem.mps.ohio-state.edu (Ed Overman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Tek 4014 on an Apollo? Message-ID: <165@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: 24 Aug 89 18:45:34 GMT Reply-To: eao@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu (Ed Overman) Organization: Dept of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Lines: 24 I'm sorry to be asking questions that are probably often asked but I have not read this newsgroup before (this is canonical excuse #1). The reason I do not read it is because I have a Sun computer (please, no flames). However I am presently in Denmark working at the Technical University of Denmark just outside of Copenhagen and I have an Apollo series 3000 to work with. (I am VERY glad that I can work on it because the alternatives are horrible - namely Amdahl computers, including a supercomputer, running VM and TSO and MVS and possibly some other ungodly operating systems.) Back to the matter at hand. Is there a (decent) Tektronix emulator package out there somewhere? I have had a look at Apollo's and find it incredible that anyone would be willing to pay 10000 kroner ($1500) for something that will only operate over serial ports. What is the Apollo ring for? Well, anyway what I need is a basic Textronix emulator (like the one that comes FREE with all Sun computers) so that I can run some of my (interactive) graphics programs on the Apollo. Also I need to be able to crp to the one machine on this ring which is connected to the Danish network so that I can telnet to our Cray at Ohio State and run some of my graphics packages interactively. Please e-mail me any ideas at eao@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu (128.146.7.200) . Also, can you tell me where some anonymous ftp sites are for public domain Apollo software. The system administrator here, Jarl Jenson, would be grateful for any responses. He is a faculty member and has taken it upon himself to set up this ring and keep it working. (Presently there are > 50 computers on it.) Thanks, Ed Overman