[Info-vax] Tired of virus and worm issues!! Want to replace my PC with OVMS Workstation. (Needs)

[LenW]

On Apr 2, 2:32 am, H Vlems <hvl... at freenet.de> wrote:
> On 2 apr, 02:04, Len Whitwer <l... at psds.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there a product or products that will run on OVMS "workstation like
> > XP1000" that would
> > allow me to dump my Microsoft XP PC and replace it with OVMS??  Don't
> > even care
> > if it is slower!!!  (Needs)
>
> > o Webb browser.
> > o E-mail Service "hopefully like outlook"
> > o Word and Excel like package
> > o Other Misc
>
> > Anyone have any thoughts on this other than it's a stupid idea??
>
> VMS can do all those things, albeit slowly or incompatible with
> Microsoft products.
> Web browsers: there's Seamonkey which is ported to VMS on Alpha and
> Itanium. The alternative is Mozilla which is showing its age. Mozilla
> has a mail and news interface, I do not know about Seamonkey.
> I run Mozilla on an AS1200 5/533 (dual cpu) and 2 GB main memory and
> it is slow to start. Once it is running I have no problems using it,
> other than that it lacks modern functionality (no multiple pages). It
> is not noticably faster on a 600 MHz XP1000 while surfing.
> There used to be a spreadsheet tool for VMS (portacalc?) no idea what
> its current status is but I guess dead. It's not on the Freeware V8
> cd's. Another poster mentioned Wordperfect, which ran on VAX/VMS.
> If there's no need to be compatible with MS-Office then one of the
> text editors may suit your needs.
> It's not necessarily a stupid idea but VMS is way behind in
> functionality now offered by, say, Sun's OpenOffice.
> For programming VMS is my preferred platform, the software is for my
> own use and amusement. I run the X displays on a pc which runs XP and
> ReflectionX.
> It's nice to be able to surf and read mail on a VMS platform, but the
> truth is that 90% is done one the XP platform.
> Linux may be an alternative but I never ever really liked unix.
> Hans

Thanks for info. Do you know if Sun's OpenOffice has been ported over
to OVMS??
Looks like I'm better off staying with XP and just try to keep virus
updates and firewall
as tight as possiable.

Still open to any other ideas using VMS!!!!

Len