[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Sunday, 23 December 2018 19:56:46 UTC, David Wade  wrote:
> Folks,
>    Is there any way to run EDIT on a VLC without loading DEC Windows.
> Dave


Seasons greetings (remember it's the season of goodwill, 
according to Liz).


What is it they say over at StackOverchange?

"Oversimplified questions can sometimes result in limited-quality 
answers" or something like that.

So what are you trying to achieve here, in a bit more detail.

And what potentially relevant resources (hardware, software, 
expertise, time, money) are available to you in the relevant
timescales? Is this for a cheapo one-off or a medium term
strategic platform (hmmmm...)

More specifically, are you looking to e.g. 

* make a single standalone self-contained VAXstation 4000 VLC (?) 
into a single standalone self contained VAX/VMS system? 

or maybe

* make an existing VAXstation 4000 VLC into something that can
provide an X11/"DECwindows" user interface to X11 applications
which are running somewhere else and connected via some flavour
of network?

or maybe something else entirely?

Anyway, I'm on the road and out of touch rather a lot at the 
moment but depending on where you want to get to, there may
be ways and means of achieving (much of) what you want.

At one end of the scale, VAXclusters can sometimes simplify
some of what you seem to be asking about. 

At the genrally simpler end of the complexity scale is the 
EWS software package (or something similar) which can turn 
a low end VAXstation into something like the VT1300 (basically
a VAXstation-derived X terminal which worked nicely in a VMS 
environment but didn't run VMS inside the terminal, in the 
same ways as a VT100 runs nicely in a VMS environment without 
running VMS inside the terminal).

Seek, and ye may find.