14 Nov
2019
14 Nov
'19
12:39 a.m.
On 11/13/19 6:30 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
How can you tell? I use websites all day, every day, and they work fine.
?? 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.
It seems when I log on websites are all designed for windows, Things like acrobat or Java runtime.
...neither of which are Windows things...
The masses that use desktops and not cellphones, I
thought used Windows
or Apple OS.
Some do. Not as many as Microsoft fanboys would like.
When I think of VMS I think VAX and PDP-11.
VMS doesn't have anything to do with the PDP-11. (well strictly
speaking that's not true, but it is not and never has been a PDP-11 OS)
Neither of which had GUIs,
but that's certainly not now I can see.
No, it's not true now, and hasn't been for thirty years. My main
desktop system in 1989 was a VAX with a 19" monitor running a GUI, and
it was far from an unusual configuration. VAXen had GUIs even a few
years before that.
If I master TCP/IP on VMS next is DECnet.
Bravo. DECnet is a nice protocol suite. Which brings this back
on-topic. =)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA