[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select

[Bob Koehler]

In article <jn3kcd-vb22.ln1 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> On 2016-10-06, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> Oddly, the rest of the universe gets by with ssh, netcat, file shares 
>> and related.    Sure, having an FTP client — or preferably FTPS or sftp 
>> — embedded into RMS would be nice.
>>
> 
> With an editor which can support ftps/sftp you can reach into
> a multitude of platforms without the need for editor initialisation
> files, installing macro collections etc on each system.
> 
> The frustrations of editing over 'console lines' which nearly but don't
> quite emulate a real terminal can be a thing of the past too.

   I know there are such editors out there, but really why should the
   editor, or any application, have to roll their own?

   Don't we buy OS so that common functionality is already there for us,
   with thousands of copies running around the world giving us some
   confidence that the thing works right?

   Or should we go back to writing ach application on bare metal?