jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger) (06/10/91)
Hello again. Here's the situation. I have a 3b2 running SVR3.1, and
I have 2 terminals for it. One is a 5620, and the other is an AT&T
630MTG. For the 5620, I have the 2.0 release of the core utilities,
font stuff, text stuff, and development things. For the 630, I have
the "Windowing Utilities" disk that came with the initial
distribution, and the 630MTG development package.
Needless to say, I prefer the newer 630 over the older BLIT. From a
quick glance, both can do layers. But before I retire the 5620 to a
closet, I have 2 questions for the experts. First, does the 630 come
with "nice" software like cip and a ditroff/tek4010 previewer? The
documentation mentions a copy of jim, but nothing else. Does this
mean that I'm SOL for the other programs? :-) Are there PD versions,
preferrably not from the Toolche$t?
Secondly (and probably most importantly), can the 630 do everything
computationally the 5620 can? I realize that the 630 has a 68K processor
unlike the 5620. I want to try my hand at programming it, though, and
would hate to be unable to do everything the BLIT could do.
Many thanks to anyone who can answer these questions for me.
j
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?
--
Jeffrey L. Bromberger
System Operator---City College of New York---Science Computing Facility
jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu jeffrey@ccnysci.BITNET
Anywhere!{cmcl2,philabs,phri}!ccnysci!jeffreygwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (06/10/91)
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.)