[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 05-01-2010 12:42, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> 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.

You may consider DECWindows to be as good as what *nix and Windows
offer today, but very few would agree. There is approx. 20 years
of difference.

Arne