[Info-vax] 2009 VMS Bootcamp notice
Michael Kraemer
M.Kraemer at gsi.de
Sun Jan 25 16:09:31 EST 2009
JF Mezei schrieb:
> Michael Kraemer wrote:
>
>
>>If windoze is so crappy, then why do we hear all the time
>>in this group
>>how happy people are running VMS emulators on top of it ?
>>I mean, the emulation can only be as good as the host
>>running beneath, no ?
>>And why are so many people here happy with windoze as
>>a surrogate for a native VMS desktop ?
>>(Some even complain about such desktop apps being published)
>
>
>
> We love VMS. It is hard to lot go of a loved one. We all know it its
> owners have inflicted it with a terminal disease and it has but one way
> to go: down. But as with loved ones, we keep hoping a miracle will
> happen and its owner will turn around and deside to allow VMS to succeed.
>
(snip)
Does not answer my question, which wasn't about HP mistreating VMS.
It was about the schizophrenic mindset
to bash Windoze on the one hand, and recommend Windoze-based VMS
over the real thing on the other.
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