[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 17:31:16 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 1/5/2024 5:11 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 13:28:29 -0000 (UTC), Dan Cross wrote:
>> 
>>> It's the perennial joke about Linux replacing Windows as the industry
>>> desktop of choice for end users.
>> 
>> Except Linux was never a “desktop” OS, it is (and always has been) a
>> “workstation” OS.
> 
> Not everybody agrees on that.

Sure, most people call it “desktop”, because they have been conditioned to 
think only in terms of a “desktop” situation.

For what I mean by “workstation”, look at the capabilities of the Unix 
workstations in the 1980s/1990s: remember, they ran the same OS as their 
respective companies’ server offerings, with all the same capabilities. It 
was Microsoft that came along and offered a “Workstation” OS that had cut-
down capabilities compared to their “Server” offering, so they could 
charge less for the former ... and more for the latter.