[Info-vax] X-terminals again

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <496e4b58$0$22123$ba620dc5 at nova.planet.nl>,
	Wilm Boerhout <w6.boerhout at planet.nl> writes:
> tadamsmar vaguely mentioned on 14-1-2009 21:10:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Thanks for any help you are anyone else can provide.
>> 
>> I have xcursion but I have never used it.
>> 
>> We have been using X-free and use it in other applications, but it is
>> not configured to be user-friendly for starting up.  I pretty much
>> need something that will just pop up the login screen when it is
>> powered up, if possible.
> 
> OK, now we're back on track. My translation is a follows. You have 
> X-terminals (X display servers), and want to "emulate"  / replace tthese 
> using standard PC's.
> 
> This is where xCursion comes in. You install it, configure it (mildly, 
> using the xCursion control panel), and your PC *is* an X terminal. If 
> you point VMS applications to it the way you point them to your 
> X-terminals, it'll work the same, including the user friendly login 
> screen. I'm almost sure I described how somewhere earlier in this thread.
> 
> In summary, a PC + xCursion is an X-terminal.
> 

Yes, but why pay that much if what you need is just an X-terminal and
having Windows underneath is not a requirement.  Even if he had to buy
PC's to run Thin Client software on they would probably be cheaper than
a copy of xCursion.

bill

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