[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <hhvtla$1c0$2 at online.de>,
	helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> In article
> <ed132a20-a7a5-4c17-aa51-964b1933afa5 at m3g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>, H
> Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes: 
> 
>> Richard, I'm getting the feeling that our visions of how VMS could
>> survive in the future don't differ that much after all.
>> I am not sure what you mean with VMS inability at being targeted at
>> the desktop, or that it is undesirable.AFAIK
>> there has always been terminal support in VMS and that is suffucient
>> for me.
> 
> I don't get it either.  VMS had/has DECwindows, workstation versions of 
> servers etc.  I just don't get it when someone says that it is not 
> suitable for the desktop.
 
It is a matter of tense.  VMS had DECwindows, True.  And it is in the same
position it was when it ran on the VAX.  But the world (and X11) moved
on. It is not, particularly, suitable for the desktop today.  Doesn't mean
it couldn't be, just that it isn't. And, like most everything else about
VMS today, its keepers really don't care and have no intentions of fixing
it.  Probably the sadest thing about it is that (unless things changed
along the way when I wasn't looking) none of the original code ot hardware
information was ever released to the public so that the current versions
of Xfree and Xorg folks have never been able to add DEC systms to the list
of systems they support.

bill

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