[Info-vax] Powerterm version 9.2.0

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 2/3/2011 10:15 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article<00AAA711.A4A8A2F5 at sendspamhere.org>,
> 	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>>
>>
>> I have no problems at all with xterm or DECterm on Linux.  This is at a
>> customer site that's using WEENDOZE -- poor hapless sods -- and running
>> this Powerterm for terminal emulation.
>>
>> There is no WEENDOZE here.  Never had it; never will.  I have never had
>> a need that couldn't be realized on a Mac or Linux or VMS systems.
>
> Really?  Seems to me that you need it to support this customer.  Sure
> sounds like a "need" to me.  Unless your going to tell this and any
> other potential customers using Windows to just buzz off.  How would that
> affect the bottom line in a world dominated by Windows?
>
>>                                                                      Why
>> do people insist on tormenting themselves with WEENDOZE?
>
> Becasue it pays the mortgage, which is more than people here have been
> saying about VMS lately.
>
> bill
>

Well said!

I would add that, while Windows had a difficult childhood and 
adolescence, since the release of Windows XP SP-3  Windows is nearly as 
stable as Unix or VMS and a lot easier to use than either!

Can you get Turbo-Tax for Unix or VMS?  That, in itself is enough reason 
to run a Windows system!  I have not yet run Windows 7 and cannot 
comment on it.

I keep both Unix (Solaris) and VMS systems because there are things they 
can do better or more easily than Windows.