[Info-vax] VMS Desktop system

[Shark8]

On 9/14/2014 12:51 AM, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip 
Helbig---undress to reply) wrote:
> It is no problem to read PostScript, PDF etc on VMS.

I think you misunderstood my parenthetical comment on PostScript -- is 
wasn't about the rendering of files, but about possibly its use in the 
display-system. Think Display PostScript.

>>  and supplemented with "lightweight and accessible from
>>  other machines [possibly non-VMS] over a network" given
>>  the propensity of VMS towards more "server-esque" tasks.
>
> Again, not something I'm /remotely/ interested in (remotely accessing
> VMS), though I have been known to log in using a VT220 emulator on an
> iPad.  :-|

Fixed for missed pun. ;)

>> There are apparently a few windowing-managers for VMS (I've seen X and
>> DECWindows mentioned);
>
> DECWindows is just another name for X.

Thanks, I didn't know that.