[Info-vax] VMware

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <qspmnj$i63$1 at tncsrv09.home.tnetconsulting.net>, Grant Taylor
<gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net> writes: 

> On 12/10/19 7:00 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> > I detest laptops, tablets, and smart phones.  But that's me as a 
> > developer.  Not going to happen on devices with non-friendly input devices.
> 
> How much of your preferred workstation is anything other than something 
> that the keyboard, mouse / trackball / etc., monitor, speakers, and 
> possibly other USB devices accessories plug into?

Think X-terminal.

> What would you say if there was a possibility that you could have the 
> same peripherals connected to a GUI dumb terminal, and you had the same 
> (or better) performance as you have now?

Times change.  There was a cartoon with a Mac and a Windows PC with the 
punchline that the difference is decreasing the more things are done via 
a browser.  Many, many applications these days are accessed only via 
http(s), both for users and for management.  Similarly, in the virtual 
world, all you have on your desktop is what you really need.

> The workstation above is decidedly a production device.

Old joke: A train stops at the train station.  A bus stops at the bus 
station.  On my desk is a workstation.  :-)