[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <roogfa$1gel$2 at gioia.aioe.org>,
helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply))
writes: 

> In article <mn.72e97e4b093ace32.104627 at invalid.skynet.be>, Marc Van Dyck
> <marc.gr.vandyck at invalid.skynet.be> writes: 
> 
> > If I wanted to run a VMS-based web browser on my desktop, I would just
> > run any of the many Xwindows emulation packages available on the market
> > (mind you, Excursion still works on Windows 7, I use it) and fire the
> > browser from any of my datacenter VMS systems with display on my desk.
> 
> So your desk is not VMS but the browser is running on a VMS server?  If 
> so, which browser?
> 
> > So that capability still exists if you really need it.
> 
> I don't follow you.  I want to be able to directly download from the web 
> to VMS and upload from VMS to the web.  I want to type on my LK411 when 
> typing something in a web form.  And so on.

Yes, that would work, but a) there is no modern browser which runs on 
VMS and b) I can have the display on VMS as VSI has said that on-chip 
graphics will be supported, which is more than sufficient for my needs.