[Info-vax] OSes

[Rich Alderson]

Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:

> On 2016-01-13 22:01:54 +0000, Bill Cunningham said:

>>     So then using simh you can get online through the MAC address 
>> interface but simh can't handle windows.

> That sentence is gibberish.   That reads rather like something from a 
> Markov chain text-generating bot.   Are you a bot, Bill?

> Since you're not a bot, here's why that sentence is gibberish, with 
> some classic Internet pedantry included, and probably even with a few 
> mistakes here...

  [snip]

> Nope.   There is a way to get X Windows with OpenVMS, which is very 
> different from Microsoft Windows.  X Windows is the user interface for 
> most Linux distros, there's an X Windows server for OS X, and the 
> DECwindows product for OpenVMS is based on X Windows, and can 
> communicate with X Windows Servers running on other systems including 
> on (via add-on software) with Microsoft Windows and OS X, and via the X 
> Windows Server that's an integrated part of most Linux and BSD 
> distributions.

Pedantry for pedantry:  The name is "X Window System", or "X" or "X11".
Calling it "X Windows" has been decried as a solecism from the earliest
releases, for the very reason that you tried to clarify:  Confusion with a
commercial product with no shared ancestry is possible and even likely.

Just to clear that up.

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