[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-12-14 kl. 20:29, skrev 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.

I also disagree, in a way.

You do not need to tell anyone that you "also need Linux or Windows"
(client systems), they are in the majority of cases alrady there.


> 
> 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.

Now I do not understand what you are talkning about. No one is saying that
the client systems should "do all that the app system(s) do".