[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2018-12-26 kl. 14:47, skrev 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.
>

Who expects the "same level of services" from a server OS and a
client/desktop OS? Who expects "the same level of services" (what
ever that is) from Windows and zOS?

Who are VMS's competitors? Now desktop versions of Windows and Linux.


>>                                                       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.

It is where it it is currently used. Why upset them?

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