Setup guide

OSx Migration Cookbook August 30, 2006

4 – Hardware

PCS 7 does not support thin clients. However, it does support

multiple displays on a single client and Web clients. Web clients

have not been validated with PCS 7/505 OS 6.1, so at this time they

are not supported.

Up to four displays can be used with PCS 7/505 OS. Because PCS

7 must interact with the graphics drivers, it only supports specific

graphics cards for multiple displays. Contact Siemens to find out

which cards are supported for the version of PCS 7 you will be

installing.

This PCS 7 multiple display option differs from the OSx Xterminal

option. All the displays are manipulated from the same keyboard

and pointing device. Thus, unlike Xterminals, you can only work in

one display at a time. Further, unlike Xterminals which

communicate with a host station over the network, each PCS 7

display is limited in distance from the host to the maximum length

of a video cable. Even so, you would need the keyboard and

pointing device close enough to the display to use them and see the

display at the same time.