[Info-vax] Like sands thru the hour glass

[Richard Maher]

Hi Brian,

<VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote in message
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> In article <h7od3n$c7n$1 at news-01.bur.connect.com.au>, "Richard Maher"
<maher_rj at hotspamnotmail.com> writes:
> >C'mon Keith, Don't be shy!
> >
> >"Keith Parris" <keithparris_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >news:h7masi$d1v$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com...
> >> Michael Kraemer wrote:
> >> > Or maybe some web browser?
> >> > Oh, I forgot, web browsers are forbidden
> >> > on a server-only OS.
> >>
> >> Browsers certainly aren't forbidden on OpenVMS. Secure Web Browser
> >> (SWB), based on Mozilla, is provided by HP and supported on OpenVMS.
See
> >> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/ips/cswb/cswb.html
> >
> >VMS has had not 1, 2, or 3 browser implementations, but *FOUR*!!! We
musn;t
> >hide our lights under a bushell. So say it loud and say it proud Keith
> >"Whadda we want? Chrome4VMS!" "When do we want it" NOW!"
>
> Chrome?  That unimpressive piece of crap?  Keep it off of VMS.

Ok, Safari and Opera won't be too far away; apparently you just can't have
too many of these things on VMS. (And don't forget all that
infrastructure-software re-use that we're realizing - somewhere?)

Here's one for JF: - Is there any truth to the rumour that VMS engineering
has been working on a Thin-Client stealth project codenamed "Obese"?  I've
also heard that it comes with VMS's own browser called "Pavarotti" (with a
V8 DECforms-esque IFDL engine to replace that silly Javascript stuff) I'm
also led to believe that on the desk they've combined the shadowed
disk-farms and air-conditioning into a single unit so as to reduce the
footprint to just a couple of square meters. Coming in at just under
$20K/user, expect to see them in the shops for Christmas with free
ear-muffs!
>
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Cheers Richard Maher

PS. I don't like Chrome much (and not giving buttons focus being jus one of
the reasons) but it is fast, and Google do have an awful lot of money to
throw at it.