Software:Logicraft

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Short description: Enable DEC minicomputers to run PC software

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". https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1807668/. "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. 3.0 3.1 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". http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1000.4279%26rep=rep1%26type=pdf. 
  5. "Logicraft VAX-to-PC servers". Computerworld: p. 47. June 3, 1991. 
  6. "CD-ROM Networking Developments at South Bank University Library". April 1, 1993. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/eb040516/full/pdftitle=cdrom-networking-developments-at-south-bank-university-library.