[Simh] More on VAX Emulation under Linux

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Sat Jun 17 00:55:09 EDT 2006


At 12:25 AM -0400 6/17/06, Dan Foster wrote:
>You can get a pretty decent X server for Windows -- Cygwin, and it's free.
>
>http://www.cygwin.com
>
>Download the installer setup.exe, run it, select the complete X distro
>and any other tools you desire, select the download mirrors to use, and
>you're off to the races.
>
>As for the graphics card, that's certainly an interesting idea.

I'll second that!  I have my Windows system setup so that if I 
double-click on a desktop icon, it automatically pulls up the login 
screen from my VMS box.  I have another setup for a Unix box I used 
to have running.  I rather wish that the X-Windows implementation for 
Mac OS X was as useful :^(

		Zane

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