[Info-vax] X-terminals again

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <996457ec-30be-42c4-a222-12eb5a5396f8 at g3g2000pre.googlegroups.com>,
	Ken Robinson <kenrbnsn at gmail.com> writes:
> On Jan 14, 3:10 pm, tadamsmar <tadams... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I have a VMS workstation.  I have 3 old X-terminals on the ethernet
>> that are used to run an app on the VMS workstation.  The X-terminals
>> are very user-friendly, you just power them up and they display the
>> login display from VMS.  The users need a friendly system.
>>
>> But the X-terminal are no longer supported by Tektronics.  When they
>> die, there is probably no way to replace them.
>>
>> I need a replacement for these 3 X-terminals, just as user-friendly.
>> We have some PCs that I can use if I can ever figure out what software
>> the use on the PCs and how the heck to configure VMS.
> Take a look at Xming: http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/
> It's a very good, free, X Window server for Windows. 

Based on his last message I am not sure Windows even needs to be part
of the equation, making it even easier.

>                                                       I've used both
> Cygwin-X and Xming and I like Xming much better

So have I.  Cygwin-X is anything but user-friendly and not something you
want to deploy to the average user.  X-ming is a different animal as it
is an actual user type application.  But I found it to be very unstable
and to not support a lot underlying features of X that many application
require.  Usually resulting in it crashing and taking all your work with
it.  A true X-terminal environment is what he is looking for and that is
easy with available applications, like ThinStation, today.

bill

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