DEC-VXT-FamilyOfWindowingTerminals

This document describes the Digital VXT 2000 Family of Windowing Terminals, designed to significantly improve user productivity in networked environments.

Key Features and Benefits:

• Multiwindow Capability: Allows users to simultaneously access and display a wide variety of applications (X, text, graphics, image) in multiple windows on a single screen.
• Network Integration: Provides easy access to applications and data from diverse, heterogeneous host systems (including UNIX, ULTRIX, OpenVMS, IBM, Sun, HP, SCO) across an Ethernet network.
• Ease of Use & Management: Combines advanced graphics with the simplicity of a text terminal. Features like a menu-driven Configuration Manager and SNMP simplify the management of multiple terminals, while local clients reduce network and host loading.
• Flexibility & Performance: Offers a wide range of color, monochrome, and grayscale models in various sizes to suit different application needs. It includes a powerful floating processor and can be expanded with DECimage hardware for accelerated bitonal document imaging.

• Software Modes: Provides a choice between two software modes:

  • Host-based: Traditional X terminal functionality, booting from a host system.
  • Server-based: A unique approach utilizing the InfoServer 150VXT to offload hosts for booting, font access, and terminal management, offering host-independent connectivity and virtual memory access for enhanced robustness and simplified management of large terminal groups.

• Connectivity: Supports common protocols (TCP/IP, DECnet, LAT) and various Ethernet (thick wire, ThinWire, 10BaseT) and keyboard options.

• Cost-Effective Productivity: Positioned as a versatile and cost-effective solution for a broad base of users, enabling them to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and efficiently across various business and technical applications (e.g., desktop publishing, spreadsheets, telemarketing, manufacturing information systems).