[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Michael Kraemer]

Bill Gunshannon schrieb:

> Well, I have seen nmerous people here lament the fact that the only
> version of emacs available on VMS is rather dated.  Are you saying
> that there really is no one who wants a newer emacs on VMS?

Can't speak for others, but nedit is just as "good" as emacs
but it has a much lower footprint, for both, compiling
and usage.


> I wasn't doing emacs for me.  While I have used emacs for decades
> when on VMS I tend to use EDT or LSE. And don't knock my VS3100's.
> They have served em well for quite some time and others, as well.

I didn't knock on them.
Just suggested that one shouldn't try to throw modern bloat
at them. Otoh, back then they were used for all kinds
of graphics related stuff, so it's possible.
"nedit" is an example for a fully functional GUI
oriented software which doesn't need lots of resources.

> I would think a decent version of X would be desirous but if it
> were een possible itis beyond my meager resources.  :-)

as I wrote: use the browser to search eBay for more RAM.

> 
> What's wrong with pine (now alpine)?
> 

nothing, as long as you don't want to
seamlessly view attachments.
Which most people would want.

> 
>>                       and news client
> 
> 
> Hmmm...  I wonder if Knews could be made to work?  That has
> always been my favorite.

There once was a DECwindows variant of xrn, dxrn?.

> 
> Don't understand this.  Did someone say they needed RAM?
>  

I'm quite sure you would want some as soon as you
start to seriously use a VS3100.