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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-11-16 kl. 17:00, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
> In article <rotvn2$9a8$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Then I have to buy, set up, and maintain a Linux system.  :-(
> 

Then do what everyone else does, that do not like to be an "admin",
get a common Windows system, a laptop can be got rather cheap today.
No "setup" and no "maintenance", it is all automated.

And no matter what, make yourself a big favour and run your browser
directly on that client. Use your VMS systems for tasks that it can do and
for what it was designed for. And that is not surfing *todays* internet…

>> 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.
> 
> Another hurdle.
> 

Is it really your goal to avoid hurdels? That is not my impression.
You seems gladly jump into every possible hurdle there is.