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

[H Vlems]

On 23 jan, 18:39, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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!- Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht niet weergeven -
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Most of us are also that old. Most of us remember the orange wall :-)
There are no juniors in c.o.v. since Guy Peleg left