[Info-vax] Correct way to dismount shadowed volume set as late as possible?

[Dave Froble]

On 3/26/2021 2:22 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-03-26, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>> Den 2021-03-26 kl. 10:40, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
>>>
>>> For those who don't understand VMS on the desktop, I am typing this in
>>> EDT on a VT320, using NEWSRDR to read comp.os.vms.  I just included the
>>> file above from within EDT---no need for more than one window,...
>>
>> OK. I must ask. What is the problem with "multiple windows". Today all
>> desktop systems has a windowing UI where multiple wondows is standard.
>>
>
> Nothing. Phillip is just being Phillip (again :-)).
>
>> On my desktop, I usually have VMS in 3-4 Putty windows. The rest has Word,
>> Outlook, Firefox, Thunderbird (only c.o.v!) and whatever else is needed.
>>
>> I can copy (part of) a file with a single mark/copy/paste with the mouse.
>> Takes probably less time then to write a "include" command on EDT.
>>
>
> You can lose tabs that way (they can get converted to spaces depending
> on the emulator) but apart from that, it's a standard approach. You can
> also easily cross-paste between multiple different operating systems
> in that way.
>
> Besides, when the target window is running Emacs, it has the tabify
> command to restore them back, which works just fine for me.
>
>> A "VMS desktop" only has VMS applications, not? No enought today...
>
> No it is not enough today and it has not been for a long time.
>
> Simon.
>

However, when we have x86 VMS running in a VM instance in our VMS 
desktop, and whatever else one might require in additional VM instances, 
we will have everything we need on the "VMS desktop".

Might we say, "happy days are here again" ?

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