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From: jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
Subject: BLIT vs AT&T 630MTG
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.032442.27620@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>
Followup-To: comp.sys.att
Summary: Are both effectively the same?
Keywords: 5620 630MTG functionality
Sender: jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
Reply-To: jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
Organization: City College of New York - Science Computing Facility
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 03:24:42 GMT

Hello again.  Here's the situation.  I have a 3b2 running SVR3.1, and
I have 2 terminals for it.  One is a 5620, and the other is an AT&T
630MTG.  For the 5620, I have the 2.0 release of the core utilities,
font stuff, text stuff, and development things.  For the 630, I have
the "Windowing Utilities" disk that came with the initial
distribution, and the 630MTG development package.

Needless to say, I prefer the newer 630 over the older BLIT.  From a
quick glance, both can do layers.  But before I retire the 5620 to a
closet, I have 2 questions for the experts.  First, does the 630 come
with "nice" software like cip and a ditroff/tek4010 previewer?  The
documentation mentions a copy of jim, but nothing else.  Does this
mean that I'm SOL for the other programs? :-)  Are there PD versions,
preferrably not from the Toolche$t?

Secondly (and probably most importantly), can the 630 do everything
computationally the 5620 can?  I realize that the 630 has a 68K processor
unlike the 5620.  I want to try my hand at programming it, though, and
would hate to be unable to do everything the BLIT could do.

Many thanks to anyone who can answer these questions for me.

j

BTW: How to tell the ROM level on the BLIT?  The 630's setup screen
tells me that I have over 1 meg RAM and version "8;8;6" ROMs.  Is
there an easy way to find this on the 5620?
-- 
Jeffrey L. Bromberger
System Operator---City College of New York---Science Computing Facility
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