Logicraft

Short description: Enable DEC minicomputers to run PC software

## Contents

* 1 Overview
* 2 References

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&rep;=rep1&type;=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.

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