[8] in 1993-clients
Re: DECstation 5000/25
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Thu Mar 5 11:38:00 1992
From: epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 92 11:37:40 -0500
To: brlewis@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: 1993-clients@Athena.MIT.EDU
>The screen size is a handicap. Since characters seem less well-defined
>on color displays, I use a wider font (9x15). My emacs window takes
>almost two thirds of the screen width, so side-by-side work is
>impractical.
Hmm - the width is 1024 pixels which is standard. Would you like to try
a login in my office sometime which is a 5000/120 with a 19'' monitor
and see how the resolution varies?
>The different keyboard is mostly not a problem, but the Alt key by
>Compose Character is hard to get used to. I've heard that this keyboard
>runs $35. This is well worth it compared to the $500 DEC charges for
>replacing a 3100 keyboard, even if $400 of that is labor. (I don't know
>how the pricing actually works.)
The keyboard is is the same as the DS5000/120. After about a week you
don't make a mistake of hiiting Al-t-L or Alt-R anymore. You can use
xmodmap in theory to map the key to compose-character.
Ezra