[Info-vax] X-terminals again

[tadamsmar]

On Jan 14, 3:54 pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> In article <ef7eec66-c965-4575-be5e-531f51cb0... at r32g2000vba.googlegroups.com>,
>         tadamsmar <tadams... at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>
>
> Finally, the answers appear!!
>
> > 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.
>
> That is a more a matter of money than technology.  X-terminals are
> still manufactured and sold.
>
> > 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
>
> If you are talking about PC's that will be dedicated to this task as
> opposed to being on someones desk this problem becomes fairly easy
> and cheap to solve.  There is free, Linux based Thin Client software
> that supports X as well as Windows.  Actually it can be set up with
> a menu to do both, but that isn't what you need anyway. :-)  It's
> called ThinStation.  It could be set up to do exactly what you are
> doing now with the real X-terminals.  And probably deliver better
> performance.
>
> >                     and how the heck to configure VMS.
>
> Depending on how you decided to set it up, this could be hard or
> maybe even easier than what you have now.  Again, more info will
> be required.
>
> > 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.
>
> That you can do.  Where are you located?
>
> bill
>
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