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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <4979fd3a$0$13967$ba620dc5 at nova.planet.nl>,
	Wilm Boerhout <w6.boerhout at planet.nl> writes:
> 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).

Not even close.  A VTxxx could never do what a ThinClient does.  The
closest equivalent was X-terminals, which is what most ThinClients are.
They just support more than the X11 protocol.  Mine do X11, MS RTP and
can do Citrix, if I really cared.

> 
> 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?

Trying to compare a ThinClient to a VTxxx is just silly.  And yet another
reason why the rest of the industry is laughing at the last VMS holdouts.

bill

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