[Info-vax] OSes

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On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 09:22:00 -0500
Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> > Ok right. So there is a way though to get windows with openvms?
> 
> 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.

I got the impression this (DECwindows using X forwarding from VMS to a
Linux X server) is not possible on SIMH. Has anybody gotten it to work?

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