14 Nov
2019
14 Nov
'19
12:30 a.m.
On 11/13/2019 6:11 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 11/13/19 6:07 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
The license was on paper. And
Dave Cutler designed all this, before
going to Microsoft? Not the licensing system (LMF), no.
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
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. 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