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From: cleary@husc9.harvard.edu (Kenneth Cleary)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: DEC VT1000 question: can it TELNET also?
Summary: YES
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Date: 28 Jul 90 11:52:25 GMT
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In article <9007252216.AA15732@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Mike.Santangelo@UC780.UMD.EDU writes:
>I have a question...  Does anyone know if the DEC VT1000 X windowing terminal
>can TELNET to a host over its ethernet?  That is to say, is it possible
>to just get the thing to open a window on its own and TELNET to a host
>within it, perhaps maintain several TELNET sessions in multiple windows
>aside from being an X windows server for some host?
>
>DEC literature I have doesn't say, just says "does TCP/IP" and does
>VT320 emuluation...
>
>    Michael F. Santangelo
>    UNIX / VMS Systems Manager
>    Academic Computing UMUC

The VT1000 sort of acts as its own terminal server.
It creates virtual LAT & TELNET terminals, which it then *serves*.
These virtual terminals coexist with X Sessions, and don't crash
as often :-)  Aside from just using them as char-cell terminals,
they are good for logging into multiple hosts, and starting up 
clients, when you already have a window manager from another host
running. 

We are still waiting for revised ROM's which are supposed to reduce 
crashes.