Hello from Gregg C Levine
Um not really. The XKernel concept was exactly as Dave describes. It
had the user set things up so that a Sun3 or Sun4 would work as an X
terminal for a box running Linux.

Now such an idea has become something of an extinct animal. I'm not
even sure its possible to build the binaries for XKernel. But finding
the hardware, a Sun3 or Sun4 should be relatively simple. Of course
I'd like to get the VAX Station I've got here working, but that's a
story for a new thread.

Oh and does anyone want a GMail address? Free invites to the first one
hundred requesting individuals.
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On 3/7/06, Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se> wrote:
> Aren't we just talking about an X-terminal here? DEC made those almost
> 20 years ago. Everything in firmware even.
> That's how you play X against a big VAX. :-)
>
>        Johnny
>
> Dave McGuire wrote:
> > On Mar 7, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Rhialto wrote:
> >
> >> Stuff can be made fairly minimal - I have a stripped down NetBSD/sun3 =
to
> >> run as an X server and nothing else (netbooting). There is not even an
> >> init binary: it has been replaced by a shell script.
> >
> >
> >   Mmm, sounds like Xkernel. :-)  I ran an office full of those years
> > ago.  Very cool indeed.
> >
> >          -Dave
> >
> > --
> > Dave McGuire
> > Cape Coral, FL
> >
>
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