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From: dibble@cs.rochester.edu (Peter C. Dibble)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.sys.att
Subject: AT&T 630 MTG
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Date: 24 Feb 88 18:51:25 GMT
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Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept., Rochester, NY
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Keywords: With OS-9?

I'm looking for advice from experienced AT&T 630 users.

I want to use one in the following environment:
  *  Medium heavy use with BSD on a Sun at 2400B.
  *  Light use with a 3B1 (locally connected).
  *  Very heavy use with OS-9/68k.
  *  Very light use with OS-9/6809.

Is the firmware in the terminal good enough that I will be able to
use a reasonable subset of its power without attaching it to a Unix machine.
I wouldn't expect 14 windows, but can I have one per host?  Can I download
fonts (is there enough control on the glyph sizes that I can write a
DVI previewer)?  Can I do graphics?

Is the windows documentation good enough that I will be able to write
an OS-9 file manager to support them?

Is the firmware documentation in general complete enough that I'll be
able to generate code for it without the AT&T tools (I'll be doing it
from OS-9).

Is there any hint of an X windows cartridge for the terminal?

If I get the terminal and write a file manager for it does anyone want
a copy?

Thank you,
Peter Dibble

dibble@rochester
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