[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[bill]

On 1/5/2024 9:38 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 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.

Not sure I agree with this at all.  It's been a long time and my
memory may not be what it once was but I distinctly remember the
only difference between NT Server and NT Workstation was Registry
Settings.

bill