[Info-vax] VMS on a PC

[ken.fairfield at gmail.com]

On Jan 13, 9:42 pm, "faceman28... at yahoo.com" <faceman28... at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> On Jan 12, 9:59 pm, David J Dachtera <djesys... at spam.comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> > "faceman28... at yahoo.com" wrote:
> > > We had graphical user interfaces with overlayed windows on VMS in the
> > > 1980's.
>
> > If you mean "the software formerly known as DECwindows", yes, that's
> > true. In that case, Fred Kleinsorge(sp?) (lurks here) is your man.
>
> And there was UIS before DECwindows.
>
> I remember Fred. He helped me out on a project. Probably wouldn't
> remember me know.
>
> UIS was great because it handled the screen repainting.

Well, UIS was the programming interface to VWS, so
it's not exactly "and ther was UIS", it's more, "and I
programmed to VWS using the UIS API"...

    -Ken