From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200109241436.f8OEasP18318@highwire.stanford.edu> From: "James A. Robinson" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Nextstaion as plan9 terminal In-reply-to: Message from Matthias Teege of "24 Sep 2001 16:19:10 +0200."References: <87elowlli9.fsf@moon.mteege.de> <87elowlli9.fsf@moon.mteege.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <18313.1001342214.1@highwire.stanford.edu> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 07:36:54 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f13de8f2-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > is it possible to use a Nextstation as a plan9 terminal? > In the plan9 programmers manual there is an hint about > that. I tried it because I was curious, and thought it was neat. But I stopped using it and went back to a PC terminal because the NeXT was just too slow. You can get a 1u PC put together these days which would blow away the nextstation in terms of performance (graphics and processor). In any case, it was the version 2 release which could boot plan 9 on a nextstation. I got it working on an old nextstation a friend scavanged, and it didn't require very much work. A bit of playing with the boot parameters, and I wouldn't have had to do that if I could have gotten ahold of an older tftp setup. Jim