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[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-03-07, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/7/22 13:57, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> The problem with that is that VMS isn't easy to manage by current
>> standards although it certainly was by the standards of 25 years ago.
>> 
>
> Simon, I pretty much agreed with what you said except for this one part.
>
> 25 years ago I managed Window, Unix and VMS.  Had a nice VAX Cluster and
> about 100 users. VMS was by far the hardest to manage. I could do Unix
> and even windows with no documentation provided by the vendor.  VMS was
> impossible without The Grey Wall.  And, if you had documentation but
> found it inadequate there was a wealth of third party documentation
> available.   lot of it free.  What was there for VMS?  The Grey Wall.
>

I suppose it's probably based on what else you were doing at that time.

For me, I was still creating modelines for my graphics cards and monitors
in Linux (and doing all kinds of other manual configuration stuff), and,
in the Windows world, Windows 2000 had not yet arrived (Windows 2000
really changed how Windows was used and managed).

BTW, does anyone else think that the Windows 2000 UI was still more
user-friendly than the current fashionable GUI options ?

For that matter, what about GTK 2 on Linux ? At least back then, you
could immediately see what you could click on and the UI elements
really stood out from each other.

Simon.

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