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TY - CONF AU - Chohan, V. AU - Deloose, I. AU - Shering, G. ED - Pak, Cheol-on ED - Kurokawa, Shin-ichi ED - Katoh, Tadahiko ED - Furukawa, Kazuro ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - The Replacement of Touch-Terminal Consoles of the CERN Antiproton Accumulator Complex (AAC) by Office PCs As Well as X-Windows Based Workstations J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS1991, Tsukuba, Japan, 11-15 November 1991 CY - Tsukuba, Japan T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems T3 - 3 LA - english AB - With aging hardware and expensive maintenance and replacement possibilities, it was decided to upgrade the CERN Antiproton Accumulator Complex (AAC) touch terminal consoles with modern hardware. With significant amount of operational application software developed with touch terminals over 10 years, the philosophy adopted was to attempt a total emulation of these console functions of touch actions, graphics display as well as simple keyboard terminal entry onto the front-end computer controlling the AAC. The PC based emulation by mouse and multiple windows under MS-DOS and later, under the Windows 3 environment was realized relatively quickly; the next stage was therefore to do the same on the Unix platform using software based on X-Windows. The communications channel was established using the TCP/IP socket library. This paper reviews this work up to the operational implementation for routine control room usage for both these solutions. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 456 EP - 459 KW - controls KW - Windows KW - software KW - proton KW - antiproton DA - 1992/12 PY - 1992 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-254-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S13MMI03 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs1991/papers/s13mmi03.pdf ER -