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

[Chris]

On 08/23/18 12:24, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

>
> VMS believed that the users didn't want a GUI but were happy with a
> clunky CLI.

To be fair, dec were part of the gui revolution from the start, as part
of the team that sponsered the early X windows development. They had a
gui on VMS from quite early on, but their kit was just too expensive,
partly at least because of the gold plated engineering design. Nothing
wrong with that, but not competitive in the age of single board
workstation systems. Expensive backplanes, separate card for every 
function and built like a tank mechanical construction.

The earliest X development was done on a VS100, a vax 725 with an
E&S graphics card. To find one of those now and get it working
would be quite an event...

Chris