[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/26/18 3:15 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2018-12-25, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12/25/18 2:15 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 12/25/2018 2:18 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>> In article <pvs0ti$1q65$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
>>>> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>>> GUI is not really important for VMS.
>>>>
>>>> It depends on what one does with VMS.
>>>>
>>>>> 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.  It doesn't have
>>>> to have all the bells and whistles.  A reasonably modern web browser
>>>> would probably be enough.  :-|
>>>
>>> You think there will be people willing to pay for a VMS license
>>> for a box used for web browsing running VMS?
>>>
>>> I don't see that as realistic.
>>>
>>
>> Maybe not, but people running VMS may want to browse the web
>> without having to go to a different machine just for that one
>> trivial task.
>>
> 
> VMS should be viewed more as an embedded system that people connect
> to remotely. In that situation, the device they are using to connect
> to that VMS system already has multiple web browsers available for it.
> 
> Dropping a downloaded file on to that VMS server is no different from
> transfering a file stored locally on another machine.
> 
> No-one sensible is going to be running a web browser directly on VMS
> in production use.

Well, that would probably depend on your definition of "production
use".  On the manufacturing floor, no, probably not.  But what if
production is an office environment where the producers are doing
all their work thru the web? Both incoming and outgoing!  Think
medical systems (which VMS once had a pretty good stranglehold on).

I guess what we need to find out is just what people think VMS is
going to be used for.  Playing nethack is probably out at this time.

bill