[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Dave Froble]

On 12/14/2022 2:44 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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".
>
>

If someone says "we want to be a 100% WEENDOZE shop", that's pretty much what 
they are saying.

PS, I know you don't like the WEENDOZE term, sorry ...

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