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From: jon@savant.uucp (Jon Gefaell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: More esix questions
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.214829.226@savant.uucp>
Date: 30 Aug 90 21:48:29 GMT
References: <1990Aug29.210101.8362@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Savant Systems, Public Interactive Media: Charlottesville, Va.
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In article <1990Aug29.210101.8362@agate.berkeley.edu> larry@belch.Berkeley.EDU (Larry Foard) writes:
>I am about to get Esix and have a few questions about it:

I've got ESIX, lemme try and answer a few for ya :)
>
>Does esix have any kind of generic tape drive support?
>I have a colorodo tape drive which only comes with DOS software,
>will this work or do I need to find a tape drive maker that supports
>unix?

ESIX supports Wangtek/Everex and Archive tapes. I've got an Archive, and 
though a pre-release driver worked fine, the tapes didn't restore under
the Rev D. release. I don't think it's ESIX's fault, but I havn't beat
on it to determine what the problem is (I got freuquent Out of Sync errors
and occasional Kernal PANIC's W/ a 0x0D status)

For other tape drives, you'll have to get a driver from the tape drive
manufacturer for now, far as I know.. (Are there any USENET available
'generic' or Mountian drivers?)

>Same question about VGA cards, what kind of super VGA is supported
>by esix? Unfortunitly super vga cards come with drivers for everything
>except unix. Assuming the device driver is available or could be
>created can X windows under esix support 1024X768X256 colors?

I could dump the list from Xconfig here, but I think you'd be be better
off to ask your dealer, or call ESIX, there are about 4 or 5 diferent cards
supported, and 1Kx768x256 _IS_ supported on those of the supported cards that
have that capability. X is _much_ better in Rev D than previously.

>
>Esix is supposed to support the virtual terminals that can be accessed
>by doing Alt-Fx, can these coexist with X windows? For example can you
>be running a text program on one virtual terminal and then flip into
>X windows on another? (Can you run X windows on several at once)

No, you cannot have X _and_ virtual terminals at the same time. The Virt
terms are still there, but are not accessible until you leave X. That's
what xterm is for anyways... :)

>                
>Unless I missed something (very possible) KA9Q for MS DOS only contains
>an FTP and telnet server, but doesn't seem to provide the actual telnet
>and ftp software needed to connect to a remote machine? 

NCSA have some nice Telnet/FTP, and such.... Available just about anywhers
on the net :) (Sorry, don't remember where offhand, I've already got what I
need :)

>
>Is there public domain software to make an MSDOS machine into
>an X windows terminal?

Tall order.... I dunno
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