Hello there,
I used DECStations a lot when I was in college back in the days.
But I never knew how they actually worked, of course most of them have retired.
Firstly, I think we had diskless workstations sitting in the lab, and an X window
login screen, when you logged in. When you had, you waited for the X window OS to load up,
I remember the OS was called OSF/1. But the Client diskless OS was a bit like
Ultrix, so if X11R5 was the GUI server of the workstation, it should actually
reside on the workstation but if so, it is contradicting because it was diskless.
But if it wasn't there, the OSF/1 server did have to deliver the Ultrix OS to
the workstations, I remember the whole bunch of workstations freezed altogther in the lab
when the network died. So how did the whole thing work in general?
Thanks
Jack