Re: OT - Suggest Network Terminal Where Netbsd Installs Easily
Lubomir Sedlacik <[email protected]>
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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.
>
> 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,
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-- Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@{NetBSD,Xtrmntr,silcnet}.org> --
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