Re: From VMS to NT

We're using Microsoft's NT Services for Unix. It comes with a Telnet service and some of the MKS Unix commands. You already have a terminal server with TCP/IP, so you're almost there. It costs about $100 at www.provantage.com. I use Reflection and set my terminal to SCO-Unix to operate DOSKEY. The problem is that everyone has access to the c:\> prompt. I would think you would be better off with some variant of Unix.

I used to be a Vax system manager about 10 years ago. There is nothing dumber or cheaper than a green screen. You would have to rip out your serial lines and put in ethernet to everywhere you have your terminals today. I did a conversion from VMS to Solaris. We kept our VT220 terminals for a while. There were some applications that just seemed to run better in a text environment.

--rn.

"Breno de Avellar Gomes" <brenogomes_at_ieee.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:39986D15.19B7F4E1_at_ieee.org...
> There are some nice options:
> - you can use your existing terminals and take advantages of Windows 2000
 client
> for Terminal Server edition.
> - Compaq iPaq - the company calls it "internet device" but it is much
 more.
> For about $500 you get a "legacy free pc", with 10/100 network interface
 card,
> 64 MB RAM, celeron 500 and Windows 2000 client license. Considering the
 costs of
> W2K itself (aprox. $250), the product is very affordable. On the server
 side you
> can use W2K Terminal Server.
>
>
> pasmith_at_ppg.com wrote:
> >
> > We are currently a VMS shop running ORACLE 7.3.4 on an alpha 2100.
> > Support for this set up is rapidly getting scarce. We are considering
> > switching to an NT box running ORACLE 8i. We currently have about 150
> > dumb terminals on the production floor, which run ORACLE forms for
> > getting and displaying data. These are connected to terminal servers
> > that can run TCP/IP. Does anyone know of a way for dumb terminals to
> > communicate with NT? Or does anyone know of an inexpensive GUI device
> > that we can use as a replacement for our dumb terminals?
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
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