[Info-vax] Thinking of VMS as a z/OS-style system, was: Re: Final Orace release on VMS.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-11-14, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
> Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>On 2020-11-13, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>>> In article <romb9o$f0s$2 at dont-email.me>,
>>>=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
>>> writes: 
>>>> I have not heard anyone leaving VMS due to the lack of a browser.
>>>> 
>>>> Has anyone requested a browser? I mean, any paying customer?
>>>
>>> The thread was about attracting new customers to VMS.  :-|
>>
>>Think of VMS as more like z/OS. Do you run a web browser on z/OS ?
>
> //GOOGLE   EXEC     PGM=MOZILLA,NAME=HTTP://WWW.GOOGLE.COM
>

This is 2020 (and the PM has just kicked Mr Morden out of Downing Street)
so I had to check that the above wasn't real, because I can't be 100%
certain what is real any more. :-)

As to Phillip's question elsewhere about why should VMS be thought of
a z/OS-style system, it's because of the workloads that they are used
for, and the way both operating systems are accessed, as they are both
very similar in that regard.

VMS is never going to be sold as a desktop system ever again, but like
z/OS, it has its own unique server features.

Oh, and Phillip, if you want to run a modern web browser on your VMS
desktop, then do what I suggested previously, and run a modern web browser
on Linux over SSH from VMS and then mount a shared directory between
both systems if you want to transfer files between in that way.

As before, this assumes the VMS TCP/IP stack (and VMS X implementation)
are recent enough to run a modern Linux X application over SSH.

Simon.

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