[Info-vax] Alpha Community licenes.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-09-18 kl. 23:37, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
> In article <jopd9tFf57pU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On 9/18/22 11:19, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> In article <jooqruFccnfU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
>>> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> That's probably because most serious VMS users moved out of the 80's
>>>> a long time ago.  Being as VMS has apparently given up on the desktop
>>>> permanently what would you expect most VMS users to be using on their
>>>> desktop?
>>>
>>> If you are using VMS, it doesn't have to be on your desktop, but it
>>> could be.
>>
>> Maybe if your still running a VAX.  I thought VSI said "No desktop"?
> 
> Some VAXes will fit on a desktop.  Some Alphas.  Perhaps some Itaniums.
> Presumably some x86.
> 
> What does "desktop" mean?  If it means using Microsoft products, then of
> course VMS on the desktop or the desktop on VMS makes no sense.  If it
> means literally on the desk then of course often no problem.  If it
> means use it for email, reading usenet, etc., then I prefer to do that
> on VMS than to any other platform.
> 
> VSI has said that they will support the on-chip graphics, so presumably
> one can continue to run DECterms, CDE, whatever.
> 
> Back to the license stuff.  They have a file which is used on VMS which
> was zipped.  Why not zip it on VMS?  Or at least pretend to be a
> customer and test whatever they send out before sending it out.
> 

Since it is a licens file that might be used for a system with
no previous license, it might be best to make sure that it is
readable on your desktop system to be copy/pasted into the
console using some terminal emulator.

Not having some unique VMS record format that just becomes
a mess if tried to be read on some other system.