Subject: Re: VXT 2000 == Vaxstation
To: Stephen Bell <steve@discus.lincoln.ac.nz>
From: John Maier <jmaier@midamerica.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/17/2001 13:38:47
> The VXT software is on the COMPAQ website, you need to know that the
> downloadable files are VAX save sets.
>
> http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/FREEWARE50/VXT
Well, I don't have VMS, but a kind soul put an image up for me.
> As for running an OS on it,
> Inside the box it looks like a vax CPU etc.. , besides the VXT X server
> software runs mostly OK on an old vaxstation 3100 I have.. so they
> can't be too different!!!..
>
> [ OTOH, If I recall correctly ,they lack HW floating point support... ]
>
Nope, I ran a check from the console and it said the FPU was okay, so I'ld
assume that it has a FPU; if it is in fact OK...
Now this is a VXT2000+, so that may be the difference. BTW, is 18 Megs the most
memory that these things can hold? I tried some 8, 16, and a 32 Megs stick and
it just saw them as an additional 4 megs so:
18meg = 4meg on main board + 2meg on daughter card + (3 * 4meg 72pin SIMM)
There seems to be a connector for some type of board in the middle, anyone know
what this connector was/is for? Just wondering...
jam