[Info-vax] Windows terminal revamped and open sourced

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In article <qe8qfv$f9q$1 at dont-email.me>, =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>Den 2019-06-17 kl. 19:38, skrev Simon Clubley:
>> On 2019-06-17, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>> On 6/17/2019 9:34 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>>> Den 2019-06-17 kl. 14:57, skrev Bob Koehler:
>>>>> In article <qe4unb$qcn$1 at dont-email.me>,
>>>>> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
>>>>> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> An old hardware terminal such as the VT-line are today always
>>>>>> a worse solution than an termninal amulator running on your
>>>>>> everyday computer client you are using for anything else.
>>>>>> No matter if it is Windows, Linux oc Mac, they all have
>>>>>> emulators that are much better to work with than an VT520.
>>>>>
>>>>>      Except that the keyboard is wrong.  And often the emulation is wrong.
>>>>>> Yes, VT-terminals are can be fun from an historical point of
>>>>>> view. But there is no reason to use them for real work.
>>>>>
>>>>>      Except that they work correctly, and have a correct keyboard.
>>>>>
>> 
>> Define "correct keyboard". I last used a DEC keyboard over 15 years ago
>> but use the EDT keypad layout on a daily basis. Works just fine for me.
>> 
>
>Exactly.
>
>>>>
>>>> Those like you are the ones pushing VMS over the edge...
>>>
>>> Over the edge?  What edge?
>>>
>> 
>> I'm not sure but I think Jan-Erik may be referring to the attitude of
>> "it's always been that way in the past, so there's no reason why it
>> can't be that way in the future." Those are the people who refuse to
>> adapt (or are incapable of adapting) to a new way of doing things
>> even with the changes going on around them.
>
>Right! We must all help to get OpenVMS included in whatever computing
>environments are used *today*. Including keyboards, emulators and so on.
>
>Another group that are pushing OpenVMS "over the edge" are those that
>deliberately are misspelling “Windows” all the time. It is not fun,it is not
>professional, it is just childish. Dinosaurs…

WEENDOZE!  WEENDOZE!  WEENDOZE!>

Get over yourself Jan.  It's a PoS and that;s not Personal Operating system.

As you may or may not know, my passion is to fly high power rockets.  Thanks
to the electronics miniaturization revolution/evolution, my rockets fly with
extensive on-board electronics.  One of the flight computers/altimeters that
I own only has a WEENDOZE interface for downloading its flight data.  I have
numerous altimeters which work with Mac OSX, Linux and WEENDOZE but only this
one that is WEENDOZE only.  I have to fight with fucking WEENDOZE every time
I plug the altimeter in to USB.  It appears;  it disappears;  it appears;  it
disappears;  lather, rinse, repeat.  I hate the fucking thing!  If I plug it
into Mac OSX or Linux, I can see the device without any issue.  Sadly, there
is no download software.  The manufacturer my checked the unit repeatedly and
flashed its firmware with new code.  This altimeter functions very well.  In 
fact, it is *THE* MOST reliable unit I have flown but its download software's
ties to/on shitty WEENDOZE is why I will never ever buy another.  Could you
imagine the public's outrage if their mobiles connected to wireless service
and then, at a whim and repeatedly, disconnected and then reconnected, lather,
rinse, repeat, vis a vis PoS WEENDOZE???

I'll continue to malign WEENDOZE for the PoS it is until it exists no more.

Thank you.
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