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On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 07:29:00PM -0600, Diana Eichert wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
> >you don't install anything on serial terminals.  they are what the
> >name suggests, serial terminals.  basically a screen with a keyboard
> >which you attach via serial cable to a serial port of another
> >machine.  the only software they run is very basic firmware from ROM.
>=20
> Unless you luck upon a Digital VT103 terminal, it was a VT100 terminal
> with a backplane to support an LSI-11.  I owned one for a number of
> years.
> http://web.archive.org/web/20020910055404/http://www.conknet.com/~w_kranz=
/pdp11/vt1xx.htm

you conveniently ommitted the part describing that the explanation is
simplified on purpose.  also, NetBSD doesn't run on 16-bit processors
so it's irrelevant to the OP.

regards,

--=20
-- Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@{NetBSD,Xtrmntr,silcnet}.org>   --

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