[Info-vax] Development webinar

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <ic4b4n$7bc$02$1 at news.t-online.com>, Michael Kraemer
<M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes: 

> John Wallace schrieb:
> 
> > There is a difference between a car (your analog to Windows, or Volvo)
> > and a 42 tonne truck (analog: VMS, or Volvo). 
> 
> the difference between computer platforms is not that large.
> In its best days VMS was a workstation system and it
> still has that capability if the vendor or what remains
> of the community did care.

Indeed.  It was even advertised by DEC as a strong point of VMS: use the 
same environment from desktop to datacenter.