[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Dave Froble]

On 12/24/2018 5:28 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2018-12-24 11:29:08 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
>
>> BTW, I can just hear Stephen right now: "Line mode. How. Quaint." :-)
>
> The whole area—the OpenVMS system configuration, the EDT editor, the
> process quotas, the licensing, the DECwindows startup—is at least
> several buttloads of quaint, yes.  Replete with quaint.  Overly quaint.
> Deeply quaint.
> For those of you unfamiliar with imperial measurements, two buttloads of
> quaint is roughly a kiloliter of quaint.

This entire topic is very non-trivial.

For instance, what "new" type of UI would be appropriate for VMS?  I 
sure don't have a clue.

You want "simply awful", I give you REGEDIT ....

No way is managing or setup of VMS anywhere near to that abortion.

Just because some apps do all the registration stuff behind the scenes 
in any way justifies that abortion ....

But, back to VMS.  "Don't give me problems, give me solutions."  I agree 
there is vast room for improvement, but, real serious question, what 
would be an improvement?

I'm thinking that no matter the UI, there will need to be some serious 
knowledge required to use it.

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