[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Dave Froble]

On 12/25/2018 8:41 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.
>

I seriously doubt that will ever come back.  Too many other options, and 
the cost of provisding such may very well break VSI, and then there 
would not be a VMS.

Nor is a GUI user interface necessary to have VMS on your desktop.  Use 
a terminal emulator, or, would you ask for new VT terminals?

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