Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request From: ml@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Michael Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: X on aging suns (1000U, 2/120, 2/50) Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <10197@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 24 Jul 90 19:05:44 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 14 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 276, message 12 Originator: spots@titan.rice.edu We have recently acquired a collection of aging SUN's including 1000U's, 2/120's, and 2/50's which we wish to use in an X environment along with our current 3/50's (deadeningly slow themselves) and a new 4/470S sparcserver. I seem to recall a posting earlier this year (in comp.windows.x) on success in using 2/120's as x-terminals.. We'd appreciate any advice, experience, or strategies for configuring a reasonable work/teaching environment out of our motley collection. If you have help or suggestions please reply or mail to: Mike Lewis (interested faculty) ml@pigeon.lis.pitt.edu Deb Wilson (lab director) dlw@idis.lis.pitt.edu Chas DiFatta (sys admin) chas@idis.lis.pitt.edu -Mike Lewis