[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-07-29, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Agreed, but I was thinking that VSI are only giving you basic video
drivers IIRC and you might be able to do something about that part
of the problem by routing the output to a Linux desktop with higher
resolution drivers (for example).

Simon.

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