[Info-vax] link to what is actually being ported to x86?

[Dave Froble]

On 6/2/2019 7:16 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> We've had many a discussion, but is there an official link to what is and is not being ported to x86? I know we had conversations about "desktop" and got some "server only" answer but that didn't really answer the what is/is not since there has to be some kind of console/terminal even for a server.
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> FMS ported?
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> DECWindows taken out and shot?
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> DECForms hopefully taken out to the woods and triple tapped just to be sure?
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> Hmmm Boundless ceased production of all text terminals in 2015 according to this:
> http://www.boundlessterminals.com/terminals.html
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> Are there any text terminals being made? The VT terminal support of most Linux distros is pretty pathetic, requiring lots of effort to make it work with LSE or EDT. Yes, we had that message thread with the configuration scripts.
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> Why the question?
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> I stumbled into this review on GoodReads while looking for something else.
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> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2377669.The_Minimum_You_Need_to_Know_to_Be_an_OpenVMS_Application_Developer?from_search=true#other_reviews
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> In case that link didn't work it is the one from Ramondo in October of 2017. Yeah, I stopped looking for "new" reviews of that book quite a while ago. The part which kind of stuck as baseless opinion was:
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> "And even in 2006, it would have been a long time since most OpenVMS applications programmers and support staff had used FMS forms."
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> I was actually maintaining stuff which used FMS. CHX trading floor system was completely FMS until 2008 migration (don't know what they went to) but I guess it doesn't matter because they got rid of the trading floor.
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> How many of you are actually using/maintaining/developing green screen FMS based applications today?
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Well, not FMS, but our apps are still mainly terminal based.  Screens 
and pop-up boxes and such, but on terminal emulators.

Dedicated terminals seem to be not required for most things anymore, 
since a cheap PC can be put together for less than the old terminals 
cost.  And can do much more.

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