[Info-vax] Most usable graphics card(s) for VMS on a DS10

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Wed Oct 7 23:14:08 EDT 2020


On 2020-10-07, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <rlktpv$lf5$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
><clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 
>
>> For those of you managing Linux and other Unix servers, how many of
>> you go and sit at the server console to do GUI work and how many of you
>> just run any needed X applications remotely over SSH from your normal
>> desktop machine ?
>> 
>> Would it make more sense to manage VMS systems in that way instead
>> of having to sit at the VMS console to do GUI work ?
>
> You don't have to sit there; you are free to use your own emulation 
> stuff.  But for those who learned to type, lack of a proper keyboard, 
> inconsistent key mapping, wrong state of the keypad, lack of perfect 
> terminal emulation, and so on are all a pain.
>

Who said anything about terminal emulation ?

I was talking about running X applications either on the console or
over SSH, not terminal emulators.

Simon.

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