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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Wilm Boerhout wrote:
> 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

Who are you calling "junior", junior?  I was VAXinated in 1984!  I 
started with VMS V3.x on a VAX 11/750.  Yeah, I was 4.something years 
late but I couldn't afford to buy my own; I had to wait for old 
moneybags to cough up the coins!