[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Dave Froble]

On 12/27/2018 1:53 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) 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.

No, the real question is what does it take to set up a production line 
for a specific keyboard, and to sell enough to make it other than a vast 
money pit.

I've had LK keyboards on my PCs for many years now.

> 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.
>
> A reasonably functional graphical web browser would be nice.
>
> Remember when people dreaming of VMS on x86 were deemed to be delusional
> idiots?  :-)
>

No, but I seem to recall no good business case for it, as long as there 
were better alternatives.

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