Second Graphics Console

[Michael Portuesi]

>>>>> On 27 Jan 91 21:10:11 GMT, rnelson at eecs.wsu.edu (Roger Nelson - Grad Student) said:

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> To what extent is it possible to add a second graphics console to a 4D/60T.

> For example would it be possible to ethernet a NeXT station and run
> WorkSpace and other NeWS based applications on it? What about with an
> X windows terminal?

You cannot run WorkSpace anywhere else except the graphics console of
the IRIS.  It uses the Graphics Library for all of its imaging.  It
was also my impression that the NeXT station supported Display
PostScript, not NeWS.  It might be hard getting a NeWS application to
run there.

You can use an X terminal with an IRIS just as you would with any
other computer system.  The X engineers here at SGI all have X
terminals attached to their machines and routinely display X apps on
them.

> Has anyone done this sort of thing?

See above.

> If this isn't possible now, will it be when IRIX goes X in 4.0?

It's possible now, for X11 based clients.

m.
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