[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <GZxA0FMEhsxA at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <7gvj6hF2ricj3U4 at mid.individual.net>, Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
>> 
>> Anyway, 32 bit UNIX didn't arrive until *after* VMS. One would have to 
>> compare early UNIX (even on the PDP-11) with 16 bit VMS (or RSX-11, as we 
>> know it)! :-)
> 
>    Why?  The kernel design, file system design, and basic user interface
>    design hasn't changed since 16 bit UNIX.
> 
>    Don't bother with X11 as a claim to a better user interface.  The
>    fist thing UNIX users do with an X11 interface is bring up a shell
>    window.
 
Still passing out that FUD, I see.  I have been a Unix user since the late
70's and an X user since X10.  I bring up a shell window when the task that
needs to be done is a shell task and I use a GUI Window when that is the
appropriate inerface.  And, I expect the majority of real Unix users are
and alwyas have been the same.

bill

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