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Document:	DEC-VXT-2000-FamilyOfWindowingTerminals
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VXT 2000 Family of Windowing Terminals
Manage Many Terminals as Easily as One

The VXT 2000 handles a wide range of business applications requiring
simultaneous display of multiple screens of information. Shown bere is the
low-cost 15" monochrome system, ideal as an alternative to text terminals.

Improve the Productivity of a Broad Base of Users

One device on your desk
Easy access to applications anywhere on the network
Elimination of desktop management tasks
Simultaneous display of X, text and image applications
Open, for mixed vendor environments
True text terminal alternative
Today, many enterprises rely on their network to deliver the computing
power necessary for their business operations. These computer networks have
emerged as the quickest, most effective way to share information by allowing
instant access to a wide range of applications and databases. Users are much
more productive when they can interact at the same time with multiple, rather
than single, applications and databases.

If you need to access, share, and visually integrate data and applications from
any number of hosts on the network, the VXT 2000 windowing terminal will
get the job done. And it will do it quickly, easily, and cost effectively, without
disrupting your environment.

The VXT 2000 Family Delivers

A Wide Range of Models

Outstanding Performance

Designed for Flexibility,

Digital’s VXT 2000 family of

Performance, and

windowing terminals combines

Cost-Effectiveness

superior graphics capability,

The VXT 2000 family of windowing

exceptional ease of use, and easy

terminals includes nine members—

application access—all in a

monochrome, gray scale, and color

windowing terminal. So there’s no

models. This gives you the

need for different display devices for

flexibility to select the right

different applications on your desk!

windowing terminal to meet your

You can run not only X sessions, but

requirements.

also multiple terminal sessions, all at
the same time on the same screen.

The single box 15-inch monochrome

You can access data from

VXT 2000 is a low-cost windowing

heterogeneous hosts and operating

terminal that supports all VXT 2000

systems no matter where that data is

software functionality, but has a

located on the network. You can

much smaller footprint. This is an

copy and paste information from

ideal text terminal alternative.

one application window to another,

making it easier to share information

If your business applications include

among applications and databases.

document imaging, the DECimage

The VXT 2000 is as easy to use as an

option for the VXT 2000 provides a

ordinary text terminal. Simply turn it

low-cost, high-performance accelera-

on and go to work.

tor for image processing. XIE (X

As the number of devices in a

included free with the VXT 2000

network increases, the management

software for casual users of imaging

becomes increasingly complex.

applications.

Image Extensions) software is

Network loading becomes an
important concern—oo many

devices sending data across a
network can result in frustratingly
slow response times. Digital has

taken these important system
management issues into account in

the design of the VXT 2000 family.
The easy-to-use Configuration
Manager lets system managers
manage a hundred windowing

terminals as easily as one! Network
and host loading is minimized using
local clients and the unique features
of the VXT 2000 software.

Fifteen-inch single box VXT 2000,
with multiple windows on screen.

VXT 2000 Family Highlights

= Choice of server-based and hostbased modes of operation for
optimum flexibility in different
computing environments

= Runs multiple terminal and X
‘Window System applications
simultaneously—under UNIX,
ULTRIX, and VMS operating systems

= Industry-standard Motif creates a
common user interface (GUD for
applications; other user interfaces

can operate remotely
= Menu-driven Configuration Manager

provides easy management of
multiple VXT 2000 terminals

= Easy access and management of a
wide selection of fonts; access to

Five members of the VXT 2000 family: a powerful line-up to handle a wide

variety ofjobs

customized fonts for all your
application needs
= XIE (X Image Extensions) standard

= X11 Server compliance lets you run

with VXT 2000 software

the latest X applications

host loading

Server or Host

The VXT 2000 offers a choice of
» DECimage hardware option provides

» Local clients reduce network and

Choice of Operating Modes:

low-cost, high-performance accelerator for document imaging display

operating modes - giving you the

flexibility to choose the one that best
meets your needs. And you can
easily move from one to the other if

» Local clients include: Motif Window
Manager, Terminal Manager, XIE,

= Four megabytes of DRAM standard

Configuration Manager and DECterm
Virtual Terminal Emulator (VT300
text, ReGIS, Sixel graphics, TELNET)

your requirements change.

memory, expandable to 16 megabytes
= Host-based mode—a windowing

= A choice of keyboards includes one

terminal with local physical memory

tailored to the UNIX computing en-

that boots from a UNIX, ULTRIX, or

vironment

VMS host system on the network

» TCP/IP and LAT communications pro-

tocols are supported over thick wire,

= Autostart capability provides quick

» Server-based mode—a VXT 2000

ThinWire, or twisted pair Ethernet

access to frequently used hosts and

‘Windowing Terminal Server with

applications

virtual memory access, font manage-

« Booting flexibility: Digital, IBM, SUN,
HP and Santa Cruz Operations (SCO)

ment and configuration management
= Fully international product family

UNIX platforms—using their media!
= VXT 2000 software is consistent
= Choose from nine members of the

across the family - you don't need to

VXT 2000 family—monochrome,

use different versions for different

color, and gray scale

VXT 2000 terminals

Host-based Mode:

Enhanced

X Terminal Capability
SERVER-BASED VERSION

The host-based mode of operation is
consistent with standard X terminal
execution modes, but offers increased

capability. In this mode, the VXT
2000 terminal is booted from a host—
UNIX, ULTRIX, or VMS (see diagram)

—which loads VXT 2000 software
into the terminal’s

phy

ical memory.

Local client applications are loaded
into the VXT 2000 windowing
terminal, where they run locally
These local clients perform routine
tasks

in the terminal, rather than on

the host, so network and host
loading are reduced. These local

clients are a DECwindows/Motif

Highlights of Server-Based

shows the host-based and server-based modes of operation.

Mode of Operation
Configuration management
services for remote custom-

control of groups of windowing
ator for LAT or

terminals, making the system

ization of multiple VXT 2000

| sessions; a Termi-

manager’s job much easier,and

terminals by work group

customizing the user

providing faster, more convenient

d connecting to hosts

Support o users.

Simplified font management

and

XIE, which

des software acceleration for

Host systems are offloaded

Windowing Terminal Server

from booting and font access

(Digital’s InfoServer 150 VXT) local» local clients, fonts are

= Virtual memory support

A unique new approach, the

he VXT 2000

izes the access to booting, terminal

management, and fonts This

eliminates out of memory

to localize and reduce network

conditions

traffic and reduce host loading.

= Password access for work

serves

The Windowing Terminal Server,

group control, security, and

functioning as a shared storage

user convenience

device for one or more groups of X
terminals on a network, provides

= Host-independent connectivity

true host-independent connectivity
through its booting capability, in

Stand-alone X display system

conjunction with VXT 2000 software.
This makes it possible to run VXT

= Localizes windowing terminal
services network traffic

2000 terminals in any network—
that’s open!

Manage Many X Terminals

Easily as One!

With Server-based mode, it's as e:
to manage many VXT 2000 terminals
as it is to manage one. VXT 2000

stem management features include

boot, configuration management,
and font management/acces:
services,

The Configuration Manager provides
simplified, menu-driven customization capabilities that let you add
terminals to a work group easily and

efficiently, configure them, and
manage them remotely. The Font
Manager lets you select and load
standard and customized fonts into

the Windowing Terminal Server's
font storage area. This local font
storage and caching gives individual
users the fonts they need—when
they need them.

In a telemarketing environment, the VXT 2000 terminal’s ability to access

multiple data sources and display information in multiple windows helps
provide fast response to customers.

The Advantage of Virtual
Memory Access

need for faster protocols to support

terminals to decompi

The Windowing Terminal Server

virtual memory operation and

image data on the screen within a

provides fast, unlimited memory

windowing terminal services.

second of being called up from the

access.

It operates

and paint

host. The DECimage option is

a shared

memory resource, transparent to the

Powerful Document

customer installable on all two-box

user or application. Users

Imaging Capabilities

VXT 2000 terminals—color

from worrying about whether there's

The VXT 2000 family comes with

scale included. In fact, Digital's

enough memory to run several

software that provides for the display

applications.

of bitonal images, using XIE. XIE

DECimage option to enhance image

supports scaling, rotation, zooming,

quality on gray

and decompression of images

2000 windowing terminals.

are freed

This adds greatly to the robustness

and gray

ale to gray” process is used in the
scale and color V:

of the windowing terminal environ-

Because the image processing is

ment, allowing for more active appli-

carried out locally, rather than at the

cations and local clients, now or in

host, you get much faster response

the future, without the need for

time and minimized host and

DECimage Option for VXT 2000

additional physical memory.

network loading. The XIE software

information sheet, part number

For more information on the
mage option, refer to the

client is adequate for the occasional
High Performance, Lightning-Fast

display of document images.

Windowing Terminal Services

The VXT 2000 Family at Work

The Windowing Terminal Server

For higher performance imaging,

The VXT 2000 family is

uses LASTport, a high-performance

Digital recommends adding the

to a broad range of functions and

protocol for communications

with

ideally suited

DECimage hardware accelerator

applications—in all kinds of busi-

VXT 2000 terminals. Digital devel-

option to your VXT 2000. The

nesses. From offices to laboratories,

oped this protocol to answer the

DECimage Option allows VXT 2000

from the factory floor to the

customer service desk, the versatile

Part Number

Description

VXT 2000 terminal provides superior
performance and ease of use.

VXT 2000 X Window terminal, Ethernet interface, system
box, keyboard, documentation, US/UK, 120 V, with:

Multiple Tasks, Multiple Windows
As a cost-effective means to run
applications that require the display
of multiple windows on one screen,
the VXT 2000 is hard to beat. For

VX215°A
VX217-°A
VX219-°A

monochrome, color or gray scale 15-inch monitor
monochrome, color or gray scale 17-inch monitor
monochrome, color or gray scale 19-inch monitor

VX225-°A

VXT 2000 windowing terminal, monochrome 15-inch

instance, office jobs often include

single box, thick/twisted Ethernet interface, keyboard,

desktop publishing, spreadsheets,

documentation, US/UK 120 V

and electronic mail; information is
created, merged with other data, and
sent throughout an organization.

Online transaction processing
requires access to multiple data-

bases—as in telemarketing applications, where a customer service
representative must provide a price

quote, check product inventory
levels, create shipping instructions,
perform a credit check, and take an
order—all during the course of a
brief telephone conversation.
The VXT 2000 can manage such
complex transactions easily and

Note:

The asterisk (*) in the part number indicates that there is a choice of
keyboard and connector options. The appropriate letter for your
option choice replaces the * when you place your order.

VX20X-MA

2 Mbyte memory, with controller

MS200-AA

2 Mbyte memory, without controller

MS200-BA

4 Mbyte memory, without controller

VX20A-OP

DECimage option for VXT 2000

SEACV-AA

InfoServer 150VXT with 1 CD Reader

QL-XNGA9-AA

VXT 2000 Terminal Software License—

SEACW-AA

InfoServer 150VXT with 2 CD Readers

effectively, making it an invaluable

one for each terminal

productivity tool.
QA-XNGAF-HM

VXT 2000 Server Software kit

QAXNGAB-HM

VXT 2000 Host Software kit

VX20D-AA

Thick wire/ThinWire NI Card with pkg

VX20D-BA

Thick wire/Twisted Pair NI Card with pkg

DW29-AA

Thick wire/ThinWire Ethernet adapter

DESTA-BA

ThinWire Ethernet station adapter

VSXXX-HA/HB

DECwand bar code reader, 6 or 8 mil aperture, for accurate
data entry

Seventeen-inch color monitor, with
DECimage option, displaying
multiple windows—image and
text—on screen.

A Partner in the

Specifications

‘Workstation Environment
The VXT 2000 can work alongside

Hardware Prerequisites

the workstations on your network. It
can take workstation output and use

A VMS, UNIX and/or ULTRIX system connected to an Ethernet network

it to perform ancillary tasks such as
testing, project planning, administration,

Software Prerequisites

and technical documentation.

VMS Version 5.4.2 or later
By limiting the need for additional

ULTRIX Version 4.2

workstations, you're able to reduce

HP-UX Version 8.05

cost per seat and enhance the work

IBM Version RS6000 AIX 3.1

group expense/performance ratio

SunOS Version 4.1.1

simultaneously.

SCO UNIX Version 3.3.2
InfoServer software Version 2.0 (forserver-based mode)

Ordering Information

VXT 2000 software Version 1.0

The VXT 2000 family consists of nine
members, all with resolution of 100

Network Protocols

dots per inch and a flicker free refresh
rate of 72 hertz. For communications,

VMS systems: LAT

the two-box VXT 2000 terminals pro-

vide a choice of Ethernet connectors:

UNIX/ULTRIX systems: TCP/IP

Thick Wire and ThinWire or Thick

Wire and Twisted (10BaseT).

Windowing Terminal Server: LASTport

Three keyboards are available: the

Memory

Digital standard keyboard, the
Digital WPS keyboard, and a new

4 Mbyte standard, expandable to 16 Mbyte in 2 or 4 Mbyte increments

keyboard that can respond to the

needs of those accustomed to

Power Requirements

working in a UNIX environment.

Line Voltage

The VXT 2000 family is a fully international set of products, available
worldwide. Consult your local Digital
sales office or Authorized Reseller

120 V/240 V

Voltage tolerance—RMS 88-132 V/176-264 V

Frequency tolerance

50-60 Hz

Power consumption

80 watts

for international ordering numbers.

Operating Environment

A Commitment to

Temperature

‘World-Class Service
Digital supports your investment.

10°C to 40°C (50°F to 104°F)

Relative humidity

10% to 90% noncondensing

Max. operating altitude

2.4 km (8,000 ft)

‘When you purchase Digital products,
you're backed by one of the largest

support and service organizations in
the world. We offer a high level of

quality and dedication to all our
customers, large and small. And

we've developed flexible warranty
and service plans to meet your needs.

Physical Characteristics
System box

Height: 6.1 cm (24 in) ~ Width: 39.1 cm (15.45 in)

Depth: 36.8 cm (14.50 in) Weight: 4.6 kg (10.15 Ib)

Display Monitors

The Next Step Is Easy
To learn more about the VXT 200

15-inch monochrome

Height: 38.2 cm (15 in)

Width: 382 cm (15 in)

(VR315)

Depth: 39.6 cm (15.6 in)

Weight: 134 kg (295 Ib)

Resolution: 1024 x 768

family of windowing terminals or to
place an order, contact your local
Digital sales representative or your

Digital Authorized Reseller. For
15-inch monochrome

Height: 36.9 cm (14.5 in)

Width: 36.2 ecm (14.75 in)

immediate pre-purchase assistance and

single box (VR325)

Depth: 38.2 cm (15 in)

Weight: 14.6 kg. (32 Ib.)

direct ordering in the United States,

Resolution: 1024 x 768

call 1-800-DIGITAL (1-800-344-4825).
In Canada, call 1-800-267-6215 and

17-inch monochrome
or gray scale (VRM17)

Height: 41.9 cm (16.5 in)

Width: 40.6 cm (16 in)

Depth: 37.6 cm (14.8 in)

Weight: 16.8 kg (37 Ib)

in Australia, call 008-021-393.

19-inch monochrome

Height: 46 cm (18 in)

Width: 49.5 cm (19.5 in)

or gray scale (VR319)

Depth: 40.1 cm (15.8 in)

Weight: 21.8 kg (48 Ib)

Resolution:1280 x 1024

15-inch color (VR326)

Height: 38.2 cm (15 in)

Width: 38.2 cm (15 in)

Depth: 39.6 cm (15.6 in)

Weight: 17.2 kg (38 1b)

Resolution: 1024 x 768
17-inch color (VRC16)

Height: 43.3 cm (17 in.)

Width: 41.3 cm (16.2 in)

Depth: 43.6 cm (17.1 in)

Weight: 25 kg. (55 Ib.)

Resolution: 1024 x 768
19-inch color (VR320)

Height: 46.0 cm (18 in)

Width: 49.5 cm (19.5 in)

Depth: 45.2 cm (17.8 in)

Weight: 29 kg (64 1b)

Resolution: 1280 x 1024
Digital believes the information in this

DPI (dots per inch)

100 dpi

Video Attributes

Reverse video, underline, bold, and blinking (can be
used individually or in any combination); 2-plane
monochrome or 8-plane color/gray scale capability

publication is accurate as of its publication
date; such information is subject to change
without notice. Digital is not responsible for
any inadvertent errors.

‘The following are trademarks of Digital
Equipment Corporation: the DIGITAL logo,
DEC, DECimage, DECwindows, LAT, LK,

Input Devices

Keyboards

Mouse

ThinWire, ULTRIX, VAX, VMS, VXT 2000,

DEC standard (LK401)

and WPS.

DEC WPS (Gold Key)

Motif is a registered trademark of Open

UNIX (LK421)

Software Foundation, Inc. UNIX is a

Three-button mouse, 200 pulses per linear inch

Laboratories, Inc. IBM is a registered

registered trademark of UNIX System
trademark of International Business Machines
Corporation. SUN is a registered trademark

of Sun Microsystems, Inc. HP is a registered
trademark of Hewlett-Packard Company.

10BaseT is a trademark of IEEE. XIMAGE is a
registered trademark of Image Corporation.

Telenet is a registered trademark of GTE
Telenet Communications Corporation.

Resolution: 1280 x 1024