Re: Thin clients + iSeries: feedback -- MIDRANGE-L

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Careful here as there are two flavors of ethernet terminals:  Character
Based Terminals (CBT) and Windows Based Terminals (WBT).

CBT's have built in TN5250 software that typically does display, printer,
and email.  Plug them in, give them an IP (or use DHCP), put in the target
AS400 IP and, voila, you have a 5250 session.  Simple.

WBT are typically based on Windows CE and typically use Citrix running on an
NT server somewhere.  These are much more complex and have associated
Windows freezup/reboot issues as they offer more possibilities.

Jerry

>I'm converting a customer from Unix and we're investigating workstation
>options for local and remote locations (remotes will probably use DSL
>connections).  PC's are cheap but run Winblows (we're not suggesting Linux
>at this time); thin clients are an option as well.  My only requirement is
>132-column support.

>I'd appreciate hearing any thin client war stories, suggestions, gotcha's,
>etc.  Off-line is fine; let's save the List!

>Thanks,
>Reeve
>reeve@ltl400.com

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