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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <177a1ff3-fda8-4cfd-8231-4828d6123280 at g1g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
	H Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes:
> 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 -
>>
>> - Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht weergeven -
> 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

My "Orange Wall" was RSTS.  And a "Blue Wall" preceded that.  :-)

bill

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