[Info-vax] VMS on remote desktops

[Bob Koehler]

In article <iapf5c$dfc$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, "FredK" <fred.nospam at dec.com> writes:
> 
> It all is this strange divide between GUI and command line.  On the one 
> hand, I use the Windows GUI all the time - not only do you have little 
> choice - but heck it is useful and mostly intutive.

   I was really suprised when I got my first Ultrix system.  On
   VMS, using FileView et. al. really cut down the amount of time
   I spent in a terminal window.  But on Ultrix, and every other UNIX
   Ive used since then except OS X, I couldn't readily do the simple
   customizations I needed to get out of the terminal window.  I
   has expected DECWindows on Ultrix to be at least as feature rich
   as DECWindows on VMS.

   If I had to do it now, I think I'd load and use Tk/Tcl on all
   those UNIX platforms.

   The only system I thought got better by switching to CDE was Solaris,
   because now my X11 code would compile on run on it without having
   issues with every single window manager call.