On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Sanders, Arbin D <asand...@nccu.edu> wrote: > Josh, > > I am wanting to change our labs PCs into thin clients. During this economic > time, I am looking at other alternatives to keep our old machines running. It > would be great to incorporate this into VCL. Any suggestions?
Arbin, This may be a case of choosing the right name to call something. Until a couple of years ago I had a 1998 Dell as my desktop PC - 256MB RAM, 1 GHz processor - which got upgraded to XP. I was able to "run" many heavy-duty programs on it via RDP client connecting to the VCL. (Our support people finally took it away from me and gave me a new desktop because the old one was getting unreliable after 10 years. :-) Was I running a "thin client" at that time? I would claim I was, as I was using my screen/keyboard/mouse and the program execution was taking place remotely in the VCL. I was using the desktop's operating system/RDP client, but that's what one does with a "thin client" - and I didn't have to get a license for a thin client OS. I did use the desktop, as is, for such things as e-mail and browser use - and it was able to handle that load with no trouble. Might this approach work to fill your needs? --henry schaffer
