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From: clarke@acheron.uucp (Ed Clarke/10240000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Help - need help to get an RT up and running
Message-ID: <1990Mar4.172021.16763@acheron.uucp>
Date: 4 Mar 90 17:20:21 GMT
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From article <32862@sunc.UUCP>, by enjvr@sunc.UUCP (Jayant V. Ragde):
> 	I am trying to get an RT (Model 10) up and running and
> would like to get some help.
> about its prior configuration.  I got this system without any graphics
> adaptor and would like to bring up the system using maybe a Hercules
> compatible clone and a monochrome monitor to start with.  When I try

The model 10 is ancient as is the level of AIX that you're using.
There's no support for Hercules type graphics.  The cheapest non
graphics card that you can use is an IBM monochrome card ( or a
clone ).  I don't think [ but I'm not sure ] that an EGA equivalent
is supported either [ I never had one to work with ].

As for USING such a card, that's not a problem - as long as you write
your own code to drive it and don't try to use it as a system console.
You can get at ports and bus memory via /dev/bus using ioctl.
-- 
Ed Clarke      | Happiness, n.  An agreeable sensation arising from
acheron!clarke | contemplating the misery of another. - Ambrose Bierce