[Info-vax] OSes

[Bill Cunningham]

"William Pechter" <pechter at pechter.dyndns.org> wrote in message 
news:n78s7n$84k$1 at pechter.eternal-september.org...

> Any Xwindows apps on VMS will display on X on linux.
> Works fine here... if you run SimH and have an X11 instance
> you can send the display from the Vax emulation to the Linux box
> over the network just fine.
>
> I've even run old web browsers on my Vaxstation to the linux box to
> compare the difference in web display of some pages.
>
> X11 is pretty an open standard.  You should be able to run a terminal
> session on any Vax with TCP/IP and Xwindows support and display on any
> linux box (depending on firewall settings on iptables etc.)
>
> On WndowsXP --  a quick way to get X on Microsoft OS's is Cygwin/X
> http://x.cygwin.com/ or MobaXterm  http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/...
>
> On the old VAX systems most of the admin use is at what Unix folks
> would call "shell level" -- meaning the  DCL command interpreter.
>
> Vax systems weren't designed to be admin'd by GUI.

    OK. I have heard of ssh and linux's ssh daemon. I've really had no use 
for it. I run in straight console CLI mode. I get online with windows and 
save linux for writing and dealing with C and other things.

    I can install an X server though. And keep cygwin in mind. I'm a like 
confused about yur indicating a difference in GUI and windowing.

Bill