[Info-vax] PC/VT Keyboarrd Mapping

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On Behalf Of
> Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax
> Sent: 23-Jun-16 8:58 AM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] PC/VT Keyboarrd Mapping
> 
> On 2016-06-23 03:09:13 +0000, Robert A. Brooks said:
> 
> > On 6/22/2016 7:24 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> >
> >> Any truly professional would quickly adopt to whatever new/modern
> >> hardware there is. Asking for old discontinued keyboards will
> probably
> >> only be an disservice to VMS, making it look even worse.
> > ...
> > I've been using the same LK461 for over 16 years to develop our
> beloved
> > operating system.  I've got a stock of them; they connect to various
> > Windows systems using PowerTerm and a PS/2-to-USB adapter.
> 
> You and the rest of VSI *need* to use what most customers are using
> now
> or soon will be using if/when changes are planned.
> 
> That won't be LK461 keyboards.   Not unless y'all are getting into
that
> production business.
> 
> OpenVMS *needs* to work effectively with the hardware the users are
> using, and not with a sixteen-year-old and out-of-production custom
> keyboard.
> 
> Or more succinctly, "dogfooding".
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
> 

Another view of this would be "carpenters should never tell another
carpenter what tools they should use on a project"

Can you imagine telling Microsoft Engineers what tools they should
use to build Windows?

:-)

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com