[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Grant Taylor]

On 4/20/24 07:32, bill wrote:
> Nothing wrong with DECTerm.  But there was a lot more you could do 
> with DECWindows.  Worked great back when I had labs of X-terminals to 
> support both VMS and SunOS for the students (and yes, faculty liked 
> it, too.)

I think that X11's ability to work across platforms is something that's 
unmet by any other protocol that I'm aware of.

GUI applications could run on their native / optimal platform and 
display on whatever platform the user wanted to use.

No, I don't consider web based interfaces to be comparable.



-- 
Grant. . . .