[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS

[Wilm Boerhout]

Richard B. Gilbert vaguely mentioned on 23-1-2009 18:05:

> One solution to that is to keep the computers in the data center and 
> give the users a box that runs out of ROM and has just enough smarts to 
> run a keyboard, mouse, and monitor.  ISTR it was called a "Netstation", 
> a box about the size of a book into which you plugged your keyboard, 
> mouse and monitor and an Ethernet patch cord.  It gave you a Windows 
> "Desktop".  The configuration of the actual computers was under the 
> control of the IT Department.  It made things MUCH easier!

When I was young, we used to call them dumb terminals (VTxxx).

Management was done on the central computer: a VAX. Yes junior, that was 
how we used to do that, way back when. Smart, ain't it?

/Wilm