[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/14/22 13:34, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <tnd0as$2r5mt$1 at dont-email.me>,
> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
> writes:
> 
>> I must have completely missed the whole "web-thing"...
>>
>> I thought that any web-browser must have a web-server to actually
>> do any "work" at all. You cannot do much with a browser alone.
>>
>> Only having a browser on VMS doesn't help much...
>>
>> And if you have a web server on VMS, the browser can run anyware.
> 
> The DECthreads server runs well on VMS.
> 
>> And it is much more practical to use the same browser that you use
>> for everything else, the one on your laptop/desktop system. Or is
>> you plan to use the VMS browser for all your other everyday tasks?
> 
> I did that until the VMS browsers became too old.  Would be more than
> happy to go back to that.
> 

When you're trying to sell the C?? levels on the idea of keeping
VMS around, it does not go well telling them that in order to use
it effectively you will also need to have Linux or Windows around.

bill