[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-07-29, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/29/20 9:35 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> 
>> The way I read it, they intend on porting it and keeping it the same with
>> minimal updates.  This seems reasonable since there has been so little
>> development going on with motif and cde anyway, and since the base of people
>> developing new applications with them is pretty much zero.  And if it's not
>> zero, it should be zero because we have so many better ways of doing things
>> today.
>
> What better way do you have to do graphics on VMS?
>

In addition to Jan-Erik's suggestion, if VSI don't want to invest
time in maintaining more advanced graphics drivers, then you can
just direct the program output across the network (ideally over
SSH) to a Linux or other similar desktop running X.

Simon.

-- 
Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.