I'm going to design and build an X terminal

[Jochen Kunz]

On Fri, 22 Apr 05 07:09:29 GMT
msokolov at ivan.harhan.org (Michael Sokolov) wrote:

> > I'm suprised that you dont want to do this using a VS3100 (or 4000)
> > and BSD of some sort. :)
> As I already wrote, I obviously considered that, in fact that was the
> very first thing I thought.  The problem is that the best video I can
> hope to get this way is VS3100 GPX (1024x864, 60 Hz refresh, 8
> planes).  I have an SPX board (which is what VT1300 and VXT 2000
> used), but it's completely undocumented, so there is no way for me to
> write an X server for it.
There is SPX / LCSPX support for NetBSD. Some kind soul reverse
engineered SPX / LCSPX and wrote a console driver for it. Surely enough
to get information out of it to write a Xserver.
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tschüß,
       Jochen

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