[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <$bsa8T9UwW8z at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <7qjepqFhiqU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> In article <$U2j7rrhcoR+ at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
>> 	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>>> In article <4b41327c$0$274$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>> 
>>>> I don't believe in the "VMS on the desktop" dream.
>>> 
>>>    Then how is it that I've been running VMS on the desktop since 1984?
>> 
>> Probably because your still running 1984 software.  I can still get
>> CPM but I really don't see much chance of it proving usable in the
>> real world.
> 
>    Now you know darn well that isn't true.  I talk about my systems
>    here often enough, and there's enough information avaiable here
>    and elsewhere about VMS to know the latest versions still run on
>    desktop platforms.
 
Yes, and the latest version of VMS is running what for its graphics
display?  When was the last time there was any kind of upgrade done
on the DECWindows software?  How many of the features that have been
added to X in the past 10 years are included in the VMS version ?

bill

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