OK guys. Thanks for the confirmation. This is a doable goal. But I guess I have to find another list for detailed help. Is there an X-windows/Linux discussion group? Any other possibilities?
David. --- On Wed, 9/12/12, dott.Piergiorgio d' Errico <[email protected]> wrote: > From: dott.Piergiorgio d' Errico <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Simh] SIMH/DECWindows/Debian > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 3:47 AM > Il 12/09/2012 11:36, Lennert Van > Alboom ha scritto: > > The more obvious way would be configuring DECWindows, > then connecting to it via > > xdmcp. There's a few apps that can do this on Linux - > Xnest and Xephyr are the > > ones that come to mind. > > > > With Xnest, you just do > > > > $ Xnest -query my.vax.somedomain :1 > > > > And poof, instant (windowed) VAX loginscreen, if it's > properly configured on > > VMS side. I *think* I had to use Xephyr to run > fullscreen and with reduced > > security though, when I connected to my VMS desktop. > > > > Or maybe I'm just mis-interpreting what you're trying > to do :-) > > I have interpreted Mr. Miller's idea as using the Linux host > also as uber-thick X client terminal..... whose is a > *really* interesting idea. > > The majority of the systems emulated by SIMH seems to have > "external" graphic system, the CPU/mainframe handling > graphics thru IOT (DEC parlance) or outputting graphic > instructions to the graphic hardware. > > so, I think that graphic emulation (and spacewar ;) ) can be > emulated in a SIMH environment in a conceptually simple > manner, using the already implemented telnet support, and > carving the graphic support as X client. > > Is an idea worth of a more deep scrutiny ? > > Best regards from Italy, > dott. Piergiorgio. > > P.s. Mozilla in his infinite wisdom has inverted the > placement "reply" and "reply to ML" buttons, so if someone > has received mails from me intended for the ML an not as PM, > I apologise.... > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
