[Info-vax] X-terminals again

[tadamsmar]

On Jan 14, 9:38 pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> In article <gklmb0$kqi$0... at news.t-online.com>,
>         Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> writes:
>
> > tadamsmar schrieb:
>
> >> I would prefer to use the old PCs we have or will get, but I need
> >> the result to be user-friendly as possible.  The current old X-
> >> terminal that I am trying to replace are very user-friendly (just
> >> power them up and they give you the VMS login screen) and the users of
> >> this app are use to that and I know they prefer it.
>
> > Then just why don't you try to spot some of those "old-fashioned"
> > X-terminals ? Should still be available used.
> > Stop messing with PCs. If nothing more than X capacity is needed
> > they just add an extra level of complexity.
>
> If he goes out and gets old X-terminals to replace his current old
> X-terminals he really won't have solved the problem.  As I stated
> earlier today, there is free X-terminal software that can make an
> old PC perform the exact same function as his Tek X-terminals. And
> old PC's are even cheaper than old X-terminals.
>
> bill
>
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And, the office politics push me toward the PC solution provided its
about about as reliable and user-friendly as the old X-terminals.

I could try to reverse that.  I have already tried to get it across
that the old X-terminals might be more reliable than a solution I
cobble together based on XDM or something.

The old X-terminals came with software for VMS (ah, the good old
days).  I think is just had to be loaded and not configured on VMS.
Instead, you configure the X-terminal to tell it the node name of the
host.  That's works pretty well if I need restore on another VMS
system quickly.

But, I really don't have to good reason to not use PCs.  Except I
really have not figured out how to do it in a user-friendly manner.

So back to the question of how do I configure XDM and eXcursion?