[Info-vax] Should VSI create a modern day VMS applications book ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/23/2018 7:24 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 08/22/2018 10:20 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 8/22/2018 12:21 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> On 8/21/2018 10:41 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> But the companies that can change make money and those
>>>> that are stuck in the old ways goes bankrupt.
>>>
>>> Ah, citation, please?  That's a rather interesting statement.  Not 
>>> sure I'm believing it.
>>
>> Kodak believed in real film not digital images.
>>
>> DEC believed in mini-computers not Unix and PC's.
>>
>> Nokia believed in phones with Symbian and real keyboard not something 
>> iPhone like.
>>
>> Etc.
> 
> VMS believed that the users didn't want a GUI but were happy with a
> clunky CLI.

I think there was many mechanisms in play for VMS.

GUI certainly impacted desktop segment.

I don't know about server segment - a lot of Linux
and even Windows (Core) run headless today.

Arne