[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/26/18 7:01 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2018-12-26 kl. 10:06, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
>> In article <pvudfi$ouc$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
>> writes:
>>
>>> If you have your VMS system accessed in a terminal window or a tab
>>> in your browser, you do not have to "go to a different machine" to
>>> access anything else from the web. Or write a Word document. Or
>>> check your mails on the corporate MS Exchange systems.
>>
>> It starts when you download something in a web browser.  If I want that
>> file on VMS, if I have no browser on VMS, I have to transfer it from
>> another machine.
>>
> 
> Extremely easy to do. Usually just a single (S)FTP copy. It's not
> like you have to carry around a disk-pack or something...
> 
> Constantly asking for special treatment (browsers, keyboards and such)
> just to use a VMS system, is not doing VMS any good. 

Not providing the same level of service provided by all of VMS's
competitors is not doing VMS any good, either.


>                                                       VMS has to play
> along using the same interfaces and equipment (such as keyboard layouts
> according to standard client equipment) that is used anywhere else.
> Otherwise VMS will just be seen as something that it’s better to get
> rid of.  

You are assuming that VMS "is seen" in the first place.

>        A lot of other parts in that, of course, but why put more
> wood on the fire?

bill