[HECnet] Getting openvms going

[Bill Cunningham]

On 11/13/2019 6:11 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 11/13/19 6:07 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>>>> Back in the day, the license was on a piece of paper, and typing was the
>>>> only option.
>>>     Man I've done a whole bunch of those!  That was one thing that was
>>> hard to get used to in the 4.7->5.0 transition.
>> The license was on paper. And Dave Cutler designed all this, before
>> going to Microsoft?
>    Not the licensing system (LMF), no.
>
>> I have been dealing with linux and unix a bit. but I
>> have noticed a Compiler and TCP/IP for VMS and a GUI. Well they are
>> really cranking VMS up, anything better than windows.
>    Of course.  Do you find this surprising?  VMS had a GUI thirty years
> ago, and TCP/IP even before that.  And compilers for a long list of
> languages many years before that.
>
>> But, that's what people use.
>    I don't know where you hang out, but I think about 5% of the people I
> know use Windows, all of whom have plans to dump it.  And certainly none
> of the hardcore technical people I know use it.  I myself have never
> used it...I'm not a patient person and I have real work to do.
>
>             -Dave

It seems when I log on websites are all designed for windows, maybe 
Apple OSes which I have never used. Things like acrobat or Java runtime. 
The masses that use desktops and not cellphones, I thought used Windows 
or Apple OS. I thought gates told Cutler Windows was going to be the 
next "big thing". Or Cutler might not have left DEC. Maybe I am wrong. 
When I think of VMS I think VAX and PDP-11. Neither of which had GUIs, 
but that's certainly not now I can see. If I master TCP/IP on VMS next 
is DECnet.


Bill