[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Eager]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:46:35 +0000, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> 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.

I agree. I currently have windows:

Newsreader (multiple)
Mail client (two)
Web browser (several)
System monitor
Console window (mainly for managing servers that don't have X)

Plus panels with icons, clock, etc.

I use the console window on this machine for programming, mainly.

And I've been using 'UNIX' since 1976. I only used UNIX (without the 
quotes) for about four years; then it was BSD, and still is.



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