[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[chrisq]

On 4/20/24 02:23, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 4/19/2024 8:05 PM, chrisq wrote:
> 
>> Absolutely, Solaris, Linux, Freebsd and even cygwin + X + xfce4, all 
>> depend on X11 at core. VMS as well, though not sure of current status.
> 
> That's a pretty pliable definition of "depend on" regarding VMS, since
> there is literally no dependency on X11 within VMS.
> 
> Yeah, if you want a non-character cell interface, then X11 is the only 
> option
> on VMS, but to claim a dependency is a bit much.  Even then, your X11 
> experience will be using a lot of DECterm windows most of the time.
> 

Sigh,

Perhaps a poor choice of words, but are there any desktop / GUI systems,
other than windows, that do not depend on X11 ?. The point was that it
is a standard, and not optional. Can't remember if the old Motif based
CDE used X11 libs or not, but that's long gone anyway. VWS, ditto...