[Info-vax] VMS Desktop system

[Shark8]

On 9/14/2014 9:36 AM, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 September 2014 15:06:58 UTC+1, Shark8  wrote:
>> On 9/14/2014 12:51 AM, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip
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>> Helbig---undress to reply) wrote:
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>>> It is no problem to read PostScript, PDF etc on VMS.
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>> I think you misunderstood my parenthetical comment on PostScript -- is
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>> wasn't about the rendering of files, but about possibly its use in the
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>> display-system. Think Display PostScript.
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>>>>   and supplemented with "lightweight and accessible from
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>>>>   other machines [possibly non-VMS] over a network" given
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>>>>   the propensity of VMS towards more "server-esque" tasks.
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>>> Again, not something I'm /remotely/ interested in (remotely accessing
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>>> VMS), though I have been known to log in using a VT220 emulator on an
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>>> iPad.  :-|
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>> Fixed for missed pun. ;)
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>>>> There are apparently a few windowing-managers for VMS (I've seen X and
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>>>> DECWindows mentioned);
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>>> DECWindows is just another name for X.
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>> Thanks, I didn't know that.
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> "DECWindows is just another name for X.
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> Thanks, I didn't know that."
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> Maybe that's because, although the terms are often used interchangeably
> and frequently that misuse doesn't matter, they are actually different.
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> DECwindows is built on top of X.
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> X is widely known; the definition of X on Wikipedia seems reasonable.
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[snip a *lot* of good stuff]

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> X and DECwindows are *not* the same. They do have a lot in common.
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Thank you for the very detailed/informative explanation; it was quite 
enlightening.