Re: Help: Mac as a Terminal
Re: Help: Mac as a Terminal
- Subject: Re: Help: Mac as a Terminal
- From: Steve Christensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:53:37 -0800
On Feb 26, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Brent Austin wrote:
I know very little about terminal/emulation. The reason I am
writing you
is because I have a very specific question regarding using an os x
comp
as a terminal. I am in the process of developing an information
management system that is a native cocoa app with a secure database
backend. What I would like to do, once the app is developed, I
would like
to be able to implement in
the following way: OS X and IMS application installed on main XServer
then have multiple (as needed) terminals that access the main server
and are able to utilize the app and database as necessary each
terminal
independent of each other. What I mean by terminal is a Mac Display,
Keyboard, and Mouse but no cpu. You would just securely login at the
terminal and then have your own instance of the IMS app to do what you
need. Is this possible on a Mac?
Just so we're entirely clear on terminology, what you're trying to do
is have your server talk directly to some number of clients, each
consisting solely of a keyboard, mouse and display? And that somehow
just those three parts will do "the right thing"?
If this is what you're saying, you can't get there from here. Even
back in the old days of "dumb terminals," the terminals had enough
smarts to be able to display text sent to them and respond to various
terminal commands. Using just a keyboard, mouse and display doesn't
leave you with those smarts.
And since you want your client to be a Cocoa application, you'll need
a Mac CPU. If you don't have a CPU, you don't have anything to run
the application on.
steve
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