[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Dave Froble]

On 12/14/2022 1:44 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
>

I strongly disagree.

There is the system(s) that run the critical and needed apps, and there is the 
user interface.  To expect the user interface to do all that the app system(s) 
do is not very reasonable.  Trying to force that can be very unreasonable.

Also, using one common system will have security issues.  Does anyone really 
want their critical servers to be accessable by the same malware that usually 
affects the user interface systems?

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