Logicraft

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Logicraft enabled Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) minicomputers to run PC software (such as Lotus-123).

Overview[]

Augmenting a DEC VAX or PDP-11 multi-user minicomputer with a Logicraft MS-DOS "card" that itself is multi-user allowed a person sitting at a simple terminal to run PC applications.[1] This provided "controlled access to PC resources without putting both a PC and a VT terminal on every desk top."[2][3] As of mid-1988, Logicraft and another firm, Virtual Microsystems Inc (VMI) were "the only commercially available products that let VAX/VMS systems run standard off-the-shelf PC applications from terminals and VAXstations."[3]


Logicraft's Omniware was a combined hardware/software offering.[4] Some users went beyond running PC applications[5] and used serially shared CD-ROM access.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ R. Ribitzky (1991). "Integrating CD-ROM Medline with electronic mail". A 486Ware system from Logicraft and a five-members VAX-Cluster (respectively), are linked in a DECNet environment that is the foundation of Children's Hospital ...
  2. ^ Jeffrey A. Steinberg (January 25, 1988). "Serving up MS-DOS on Ethernet". Digital Review.
  3. ^ a b Kristina Sorenson (April 4, 1988). "VMI, Logicraft up the Ante". Digital Review. a new version of Logicraft's 386Ware that provides more support for the VAXstation
  4. ^ A. H. Helal (1981). "Integration of the Jukebox".
  5. ^ "Logicraft VAX-to-PC servers". Computerworld. June 3, 1991. p. 47.
  6. ^ "CD-ROM Networking Developments at South Bank University Library". April 1, 1993.
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