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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.terminals.tty5620
Subject: Re: BLIT vs AT&T 630MTG
Keywords: 5620 630MTG functionality
Message-ID: <16382@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 10 Jun 91 16:36:04 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.032442.27620@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>
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Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Jun10.032442.27620@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger) writes:
>... does the 630 come with "nice" software like cip and a ditroff/tek4010
>reviewer?  The documentation mentions a copy of jim, but nothing else.

The AT&T UNIX System Toolchest offers a "630pkg" containing modernized
versions of essentially all the 5620 utilities you have come to like.
Also, consider the "sam" editor offered by the Toolchest; it's a much
improved version of "jim", and once you have a license for "sam", you
can get an improved version that also supports Suntools and X-Windows
from me.

>Secondly (and probably most importantly), can the 630 do everything
>computationally the 5620 can?

Essentially, yes.  Its firmware and support software are pretty much
supersets of the 5620's.

>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?

The easiest is to press SHIFT+SETUP and see what is displayed.
(If no version is displayed, you have 8;7;1 or 8;7;2, which are pretty
old.  8;7;5 is the latest that I know of.)