[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/29/20 1:20 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

Changing the display will not add more modern graphics capabilities
to a 20+ year old version of MOTIF and CDE.

bill