[Info-vax] FMS and Datatrieve

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-05-21 09.03, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On May 20, 1:32 pm, Johnny Billquist<b... at softjar.se>  wrote:
>> On 2011-05-20 09.39, JF Mezei wrote:
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>>> FMS (and ALLIN1) are in in maintenance mode.
>>
>>> FMS was to be EOLed at the VAX-Alpha transition, but the announcement
>>> that ALLIN1 was to be ported to Alpha forced Digital to port to FMS too,
>>> but it has been in maintenance mode since. There was one new release and
>>> a couple of patches I think since the early 1990s.
>>
>> Wasn't FMS supposed to be replaced by a new product, that did what FMS
>> do, and more? I can't remember the name of it...
>>
>>          Johnny
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> FMS has been supposedly replaced many times by many products SMG,
> DECForms, etc., but FMS is simple to use combined with a large
> installed base.  In other words, it ain't goin' nowhere.

I was just trying to remember (restate) DECs view. I know FMS never went 
away. And, as a user of RSX, FMS is still the only solution.

But SMG was/is no replacement for FMS. They do totally different things, 
even though they both handle terminals.

	Johnny