[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

Grant Taylor gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net
Mon Apr 22 19:05:09 EDT 2024


On 4/22/24 13:50, Dan Cross wrote:
> It's not even that people don't care, it's that the entire thing is so 
> ridiculously complex that it's beyond the understanding of a single 
> person, and much of it is hidden from the OS, buried under layers 
> of firmware blobs running on hidden cores outside of the visibility, 
> let alone control, of an operating system.

There is some truth to the complexity.

But you can't have anyone, or even a team of people, effectively 
understand if their bosses don't care and won't give them time to learn 
how things work.

There is way too much apathy going around.



-- 
Grant. . . .



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