Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu From: schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: BSD Unix on 6150-135? Message-ID: <4321@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> Date: 25 Feb 89 22:14:55 GMT References: <1966@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <28304@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Reply-To: schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) Organization: Pennsylvania State University, Computer Science Lines: 20 In-reply-to: eap@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Eric Pearce) In article <28304@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, eap@bu-cs (Eric Pearce) writes: > As far as I know, there are no hardware differences that prevent you > from running 4.3. If you plan to make it a usable workstation, you > need to have a monitor such as the "megapel", as the smaller PS2-like > vga ones are just too small for a windowing system like X. True, true. The megapel is a really nice display. The 8514a is not as nice, but might cost less or something. Anything smaller: forget it. By the way, IBM has not yet released drivers that work correctly with X11R3 (although I'm told they have them). As shipped, you get X11R2 :-( > worth your ime to switch over to 4.3, as most of the public domain software > that I have tried will run with few changes. It also comes with > lots of neat software from Project Athena. Not to mention all the nifty Andrew stuff from CMU. Now if only they would ship MACH with the RT.... Sigh. -- Scott Schwartz