28 Jan
2002
28 Jan
'02
1:36 p.m.
I started internal medicine rotation at the Loma Linda
VA Hospital today
and noted that the entire place is crawling with WinTerms (by Wyse, no less),
running WinCE, connected via Citrix to a Win2K Advanced Server host. There
are only a few "real" PCs there -- in fact, I think the Macs might outnumber
them.
On a slightly related note, has anyone seen a VNC Terminal yet? I got an
add for them a while back. While they're basically the same thing as a
WinTerm, they strike me as being more usable as VNC is better supported than
WinFrame.
Before all of you cry off-topic, doesn't it seem
odd to anyone we're now
full circle and back to low-power terminals connected to a "mainframe," now
that corporate America has gotten off its fat client kick?
Where I work PC's are basically used as X-Terminals that can run office
apps if needed. If I understand this .NET thing (doubtful), it sounds to me
like they're heading even closer to a Mainframe type style of computing.
Zane