[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-12-27, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <q007ms$9oq$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
><davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 
>
>> So Phillip, what are your suggested solutions.  First, you wish VSI to 
>> provide a GUI with VMS.  And now you want a "true" VT style keyboard. 
>> Just who are you asking to provide this keyboard?
>
> What does a keyboard cost?  $10?  Probably less.  This shouldn't even be 
> an issue.  Hopefully I can connect one of my LK keyboards via some sort 
> of adapter into an x86 system running VMS.
>

That shows a lack of understanding of manufacturing economics.

Every product has an up-front development cost and a per-unit
manufacturing cost.

The only reason normal keyboards are that price is because they are
probably built in batches of at least 100,000 units with very
little or no changes required between all the following batches.

The economics are very different when you are building in batches
of probably 1,000 or so and only building a few batches.

> Personally, I don't need a GUI, just CDE, and VSI have said that they 
> will support the on-chip graphics, which is more than enough.
>

How exactly are you defining GUI because that statement doesn't appear
to make any sense. What do you think CDE is built on top of ?

Simon.

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