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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

H Vlems wrote:
> 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

I think that VMS Engineers, past and present, are automagically 
"grandfathered"!