rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) (01/24/91)
I will be acquiring an Atari 400 with 48K and I have the following
questions:
If I hook up it up to my ST with the proper interface and a null modem
adapter, is there any I could run MiNT and have the 400 be a terminal to
the ST, just so I could be running a shell?
Thanks.....
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Yea, right, thats what I said.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith) (01/26/91)
> If I hook up it up to my ST with the proper interface and a null modem > adapter, is there any I could run MiNT and have the 400 be a terminal to > the ST, just so I could be running a shell? > Yes; just doing "bg -o aux: shell <aux:" should start up a shell connected to the RS232 port (replace "shell" by whatever shell you prefer; bash or init.prg should work reasonably well). Note that you should use the bg program because it sets up the control terminal properly; just running the shell in the background with "&" won't do this. -- Eric R. Smith email: Dept. of Mathematics eric.smith@uwo.ca University of Western Ontario 7103_2622@uwovax.bitnet
jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura) (01/30/91)
In article <3480.279df2fe@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes: >I will be acquiring an Atari 400 with 48K and I have the following >questions: > >If I hook up it up to my ST with the proper interface and a null modem >adapter, is there any I could run MiNT and have the 400 be a terminal to >the ST, just so I could be running a shell? Well, sure you could use the 400 as a terminal for a Unix-like system. But that doesn't make it a *good* idea. The problem with the 400 is that you won't have a clearly legible 80 * 24 character screen. When you use advanced OS's and especially if you want to do development work, you'll want at the very least an 80 * 24 screen. You can play with the 400 as a terminal, but you'll soon tire of the inconvenience. If you have the money lying around, a used 520STm with a VT100 cartridge would be a wonderful choice for a terminal. Otherwise, as far as the 8 bit machines are concerned, my own favorite approach would be a Radio Shack Color Computer 3, which has an 80 * 24 capability (640 * 200 resolution) and RGB, RF and composite outputs built in. And, of course, a version of OS-9 available. -- Jim Omura, 2A King George's Drive, Toronto, (416) 652-3880 lsuc!jimomura Byte Information eXchange: jimomura