[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Michael Kraemer]

Bill Gunshannon schrieb:

> I doubt anyone here evert hought VMS was tsargeted for or even
> reasonbly considerable for a desktop. 

Not quite true.
A good part of VMS' popularity in the late 1980s was owed
to its usage on desktop workstations.

> None of the orignal development
> was in that direction. 

Neither was it for Unix[oids].
But they did quite well with their graphics
add-on, which they share with VMS to a large extent.
Iirc, DEC made significant contributions to X11.

> And by the time the "Desktop" became important
> VMS was already to deeply ingrained with Server concepts.