Adrian Midgley wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 January 2004 21:39, Trefor Roscoe wrote:
>
>> Mainly hardware, 20 new PCs (none of our current ones would run PCS
>> adequately) two scanners, an upgrade to the link between the sites
>> and a new server.
>
> I'd have looked at a stonking server, but then run sessions on it and
> used the old PCs as moderately smart/fairly thick clients for that,
> thus sidestepping the hardware there.
>
> I would use VNC, but probably in a Windows shoppe people would choose
> rdesktop now. Has EMIS been ported to GT.M yet?
PCS will not run on thin clients. My colleagues will not want to use
anything else. I thought I would play the PCT at their own game. They
have been trying to get us to go paperless fro a couple of years. I just
wanted to make sure they knew the real costs. Arranged a meeting with
the chair of the PEC and the CEO. They visibly blanched.
Trefor
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