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

[Wilm Boerhout]

Bill Gunshannon vaguely mentioned on 23-1-2009 18:47:

[snip]

> 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.

Be that as it may, it allowed for 100.000 identical integrated desktops 
(office suite + application) within Digital Equipment alone at one 
point, and even more so within GE for whom ALL-IN-1 (TM) was initially 
developed. 200% functional and 300% manageable.

/Wilm