[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <roosmk$ga0$1 at dont-email.me>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
writes: 

> Den 2020-11-14 kl. 12:53, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
> > 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?
> 
> I think he was just speculating around a hypotetical setup. No one would
> run the browser on VMS in real life, of course.

It seems a strange sort of speculation, though, since it is much easier 
to have a graphics monitor directly on VMS than to have a web browser 
running on VMS.

> There are several non-browser tools to automate that, if you need.
> 
> For tasks like patch download and similar it is much easier to use
> a browser on a standard desktop environment and then transfer the
> patch files using any file transfer tool, usually FTP based.

I don't get it.  My way, it goes directly.  Your way, there is an extra 
step.  How can that be easier?

> Read my lips, there will *never* be a "modern" browser running on VMS
> servers having features up to date with browsers on desktop systems.

I remember when people said that VMS would never, ever run on x86.  :-)