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Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014) by anyfoo on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @09:51PM (#26734152)
Oh, I found a screenshot and some more information! Page 111 of this:

http://oldcomputers.dyndns.org/public/pub/rechner/siemens/mx...

I think Siemens 97801 is another moniker for Siemens PC-X (at least the SINIX kernel also calls it 9780).

Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014) by johndoe0815 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @03:33AM (#26736065)
The 97801 was only a - very nice and ergonomic - serial text terminal (some models were VT220 compatible), but it was commonly used with SINIX systems. It seems that Siemens provided a 97801 emulator for Collage (https://www.computerwoche.de/a/siemens-macht-sich-mit-collag...).
Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014) by anyfoo on Thursday April 08, 2021 @05:04PM (#26743737)
My bad, I looked into my notes again, the Siemens PC-X was the Siemens 9781.
Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014) by rbanffy on Thursday April 08, 2021 @11:39AM (#26740150)
If I understand correctly the docs we found, there were 3 "flavors": "Grafik-COLLAGE", "Alpha-COLLAGE", and "X-COLLAGE". I assume the first would be for some sort of clever terminal, the second for non-graphical terminals, and the last one for X servers.

At the time I thought it was odd that the windows ended up aligning at character cell borders, which would indicate a terminal with some form of redefinable character set.

Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014) by masswerk on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @11:31PM (#26734820)
Yes, there are actually several screenshots (or rather, hardcopies of screens) in this.

Thank you!

Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014) by anyfoo on Thursday April 08, 2021 @01:19AM (#26735328)
No, thank you! This is something I didn't even know existed, and now I'm very curious to find out more. Although chances are slim, maybe that software turns up somewhere someday (it would be brilliant if it's on one of the machines I got, since except for the one that was my own in the 80s, I did not get to even see them yet--shipping them over the ocean would not just have been expensive, but risky, too).
Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014) by masswerk on Thursday April 08, 2021 @12:24PM (#26740700)
I've published a few screenshots at the Retrocomputing Forum, https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/a-bit-of-xenix-history/186...
Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014) by rbanffy on Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:13AM (#26736294)
If it’s there, please preserve and document it. There’s very little left of it anywhere else.
Re:A bit of XENIX history (2014) by anyfoo on Thursday April 08, 2021 @05:07PM (#26743763)
Of course. I found some other stuff in the 1.2 kernel by the way, like the existence of (relatively smart, apparently) network and serial multiplexer cards for the PC-X.

I also reverse engineered how the NMI worked, details about the MMU etc.