I recently picked up a Tektronix XP214M - a MIPS-based, monochrome X
terminal from late 1994. I thought I was going to need XPressWare 7 or
later, but I haven't been able to turn up anything like that except the
8.1 patches shared on this list a couple years ago (thanks Doc!). And
something about the fragments I pulled out of that wasn't working...
XpressWare 6.3 is available on Bitsavers (thanks Al!), but appears to
date from October 1993. I thought that would be a non-starter, since it
predated the announcement of the XP214 by a year. But the v8 docs, and
NC Bridge docs from after NCD bought the Tek X terminal line, indicated
the binaries for the XP350 were used for the XP200 models, and the
terminal was loading the v8.1 "os.350" successfully, it just died later
in the boot process...
So I tried booting the terminal from the 6.3 tree, and it worked the
first time.
It may be possible to tease out what's missing or incorrectly placed
from the v8.1 patch files, but I'm more concerned with getting something
running where the X networking hasn't been neutered...
FYI,
--Steve.
