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From: mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Building X server on HP 3xx running 4.4BSD
Date: 3 Jul 1993 01:45:39 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
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Message-ID: <212oc3$nro@st-james.comp.vuw.ac.nz>
References: <20ujk1$6v4@lorne.stir.ac.uk> <20vtlm$1r9@st-james.comp.vuw.ac.nz>
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Keywords: Xhp.o hp300 4.4BSD

In article <20vtlm$1r9@st-james.comp.vuw.ac.nz> I wrote:

>The X11R5 server that is in the contributed software for 4.4bsd runs on the
>topcat, catseye and hyperion displays.  All our diskless 340's are setup as
>you describe with a minimal kernel and "init" being a shell script that
>fires up the X server.  This configuration performs quite reasonably.

I should perhaps qualify the above and say that these diskless 340's aren't
(yet) running 4.4 but MORE/bsd.  However the Xserver in use is the same.

cheers
mark