[Info-vax] Windows X server?

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Mon Sep 18 11:04:22 EDT 2023


On 2023-09-18 08:51, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-09-17 at 18:25 -0400, bill wrote:
>> Tell that to the millions of Linux and BSD desktop users.
>> Just because VMS users don;t want a desktop doesn't mean the
>> rest of the industry agrees.
>>
>> Personally, I really miss my VMS desktop.
> 
> It should be straightforward to port the existing X11 driver for
> Virtualbox or VMware to OpenVMS. The x86 driver already exists for
> Linux.

Uh? How did you come to the conclusion that some driver from Linux would 
be straight forward to port to VMS? There aren't exactly much 
commonality between the internals in Linux and VMS...

   Johnny




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