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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 08/23/2018 09:29 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

The same mechanism everyone else faced (and continues to face!)

> 
> GUI certainly impacted desktop segment.

Impacted?  It threw them out of it entirely.  No one ever said
they could (or should have) taken over the desktop world, but
abandoning it was probably not a wise decision given the way
the industry was moving at the time.  There are other niche
OSes that maintained their ability to function from a desktop.
Some of them very proprietary but still surviving just fine.
Some even adapted their desktop interface to the web.

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

Yes, but they still have the desktop ability even when run
headless.  All of my servers at the University, Unix, Linux
and Windows ran headless.  Except when there was trouble
requiring me to actually leave my office and enter the
computer room we ran not only headless, but dark.  But,
when needed, all of those systems supported desktop access.
And it especially made remote administration nice.  I had
a multi monitor desktop with consoles for machines I needed
to access and could have them all when needed.

bill



bill