verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber) (02/02/90)
The Grasshopper Group has done an X.11/NeWS merge window system that ran on Sun 3/50s (like an Xterm). They had first done a NeWS 1.1 terminal whicjh had very good preformance. The X.11/NeWS merge they showed at Summer Usenix was slow.. but they had just finished the first phase of the port and hadn't hacked for preformance. Last I heard they hadn't decided what they were going to do with. Hello Grasshopper? Hugh? John? There are many of us who are interested in this if you ever sell it. ---mark verber
reggie@dinsdale.nm.paradyne.com (George W. Leach) (02/02/90)
In article <10923@etana.tut.fi> pl@etana.tut.fi (Lehtinen Pertti) writes: >From article <7731@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>, by rac1@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (robert.a.clark): >> Has anyone tried converting a SUN3/50 from a UNIX workstation into a >> X-terminal? I think that it is feasible, but would take some work. We > We have thought that also, but lack of information about > innards of workstation causes some problems. At the Summer USENIX Conference in Baltimore this past June, John Gilmore of the Grasshopper Group indicated that they were working on a minimal kernal for the Sun 3/50 in order for it to be used as a NeWS server/terminal. This was at the NeWS (or was it X11/NeWS?) BOF. I forget the details. If they were going to support the X11/NeWS mergered server, then this will help you. > Also nobody around here seems to be interested to finance > such projects. Sun was funding the work by Grasshopper. Perhaps John or one of the other Grasshopper Group folks would like to comment upon this? George W. Leach AT&T Paradyne (uunet|att)!pdn!reggie Mail stop LG-133 Phone: 1-813-530-2376 P.O. Box 2826 FAX: 1-813-530-8224 Largo, FL 34649-2826 USA
arl@cs.hut.fi (Ari Lemmke) (02/02/90)
In article <7731@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> rac1@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (robert.a.clark) writes: > Has anyone tried converting a SUN3/50 from a UNIX workstation into a > X-terminal? I think that it is feasible, but would take some work. We A solution to this would be: run x-kernel (ftp from cs.arizona.edu), and run X-server on top of it ... but first someone has to do porting ... It would be much quicker without un*x daemons and other stuff. > Bob Clark, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, 201-949-3325 arl
p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst) (02/08/90)
In article <1366@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber) writes: >The Grasshopper Group has done an X.11/NeWS merge window system that >ran on Sun 3/50s (like an Xterm). ... >Hello Grasshopper? Hugh? John? There are many of us who are interested >in this if you ever sell it. If this project becomes reality, we would be interested in it. Currently, we use some Sun3/60 mostly as display devices and we want to leave computational tasks (we do digital image processing) on our faster machines. Michael van Elst uunet!unido!mpirbn!uucp