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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/23/2018 1:29 PM, Chris wrote:
> 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.

VWS and early DECWindows may have been relative competitive
at least functionality wise (you may be right that they were
too expensive).

But that is about 30 years ago.

VMS GUI was not competitive functionality wise in the 90's.

Arne