Re: New VSI post on Youtube

On 8/20/2024 5:56 PM, chrisq wrote:

On 8/18/24 14:03, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 8/18/2024 6:05 AM, Michael Kraemer wrote:

On 18.08.2024 03:59, Dave Froble wrote:

Well, one could argue that paper and ink are also "not VMS" ...
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VMS is the OS ...
Documentation is, well, whatever it is ...

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well, one could argue that a real OS should not depend on another one to be fully functional.
At least it should be able to present its own documentation.
In this context, paper and ink are agnostic.

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Maybe the concept "OS" is too general here.
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I would expect a "client OS" to be able to display
HTML, PDF, video etc..
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I would expect a "server OS" to be able to serve
that content to clients.

 A properly sorted os should be able to do any of those things,
with the appropriate packages. The os is merely there to provide
services to applications...

True.
But packages does not get ported to an OS by magic - someone
needs to do the work.
VSI see VMS as a server OS and spend money on server stuff
not client stuff.
Given that a large part of the client stuff is open source,
then VMS users could in theory add the client stuff. But
we all know that is not going to happen.
Arne