[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <pvstrc$1ia$1 at dont-email.me>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
writes: 

> >> Sure a newer X and GTK could be nice, but I don't think it would help
> >> VSI sell a single VMS license.
> > 
> > I'm not sure.  Obviously, people still on VMS are dependent on a modern
> > GUI.  But it might open the door to some NEW customers.
> 
> That had been more logical with "...not dependent on...".

Yes, of course.

> > It doesn't have
> > to have all the bells and whistles.  A reasonably modern web browser
> > would probably be enough.  :-|
> 
> As have been said many times, a web *browser* is wasted money on VMS.
> No sane person uses VMS as their "office desktop" today. And the ROI
> from some hobbyists will probably not pay the development of it.

Many people don't use it because it doesn't exist.  If it existed, more 
people would use it.  Maybe not all, maybe not most, but some.

> And regarding a "GUI for VMS" in general, it is today a web server (on
> VMS) and browsers (on some common office desktop platform).

Yes, but I long for the old desktop-to-datacenter days.