[Info-vax] VMS Desktop system

[Dirk Munk]

Kerry Main wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
>> Dirk Munk
>> Sent: 15-Sep-14 2:17 PM
>> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
>> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] VMS Desktop system
>>
>> David Froble wrote:
>>> Dirk Munk wrote:
>>>
>>>> It would be much simpler to put a VM system on an x86 desktop, and
>> run
>>>> an instance of VMS on it, combined with an instance of Windows,
>> Linux,
>>>> or even MAC OS. Let those other operating systems do browsing,
>> mailing
>>>> etc.
>>>
>>> Aren't people doing that right now?  Just run SimH in a VM instance.
>>
>> Yes of course, I'm running an Alpha emulation on my laptop. But this
>> discussion was more about the future updated x86 version of VMS.
>
> Hey - how about a Windows or Linux emulator running on OpenVMS?
>
> Perhaps as one of the desktops in CDE?
>
> :-)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Kerry Main
> Back to the Future IT Inc.
>   .. Learning from the past to plan the future
>
> Kerry dot main at backtothefutureit dot com
>
>
>

That's old news. Don't you remember the 80286 emulator for a Vax 
workstation?