[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[motk]

On 22/04/2024 9:15 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> I see that around me all the time. systemd is one obvious trigger for
> them, but there are others (e.g. Wayland, iproute2). Some of these people
> may be physically no older than me (I’m guessing), but mentally it seems
> they already have one foot in the grave.

I don't even like iproute2 myself! I can however, see why it's needed, 
given that the older tooling was invented before stuff like infiniband 
and is incredibly hard to automate.

I'd like OpenVMS to succeed, but you need to at least try to remove the 
little itchy bits that cause friction. I need to use putty? I mean sure, 
but I can't resize the font sizing on the fly with ctrl-mousewheel, 
lame. What do you mean, termtype? Why won't it just accept xterm, a 
thirty year old informal standard? It's often the little things that put 
people off, and they are often the things that might take an expert the 
least effort to fix once and for all.

You've already dropped VAX and Alpha and iTanic can't be too far off. 
Why not just make the extra effort and embrace what is possible?

If I seem intemperate sometimes, I apologise, but I am a grumpy old bugger.

-- 
motk