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Funny that you single out VAX (and implicitly VMS). DECForms actually allowed for the programing of very spiffy user interfaces, which worked very well on VT t
by CaptainZapp 5y ago
Funny that you single out VAX (and implicitly VMS).
DECForms actually allowed for the programing of very spiffy user interfaces, which worked very well on VT terminals. Input could be handled extremely fast and efficient by a (semi-) experienced user.
You probably meant Mainframe terminals, which had no ability to handle asynchronous key input, but where you could only send complete pages to the mainframe.
Source: I worked with both. Moving from Unisys 1100 mainframes (and all their horrible utilities) to VAX and VMS was an epiphany.
I'd still argue that a lot of VMS software was actually better and handled better than the bloat we have to deal with nowadays.
- tapland 5y agoOh I connect to a VMS-system for work daily until new year (then we're getting replaced and I'm off to find something more modern, I guess)! VMS is a delight. So much more pleasant for the user than the IBM-boxes, but I do have very specific VAX-based systems in mind! Though, the example is a mish mash of that and what I've seen lately from customers running AS/400s. But in both cases it's "awesome cool new user interfaces" made some time in the past to try to make the terminals easier to use for staff at sales locations. Very hyped about OpenVMS 9, but will probably migrate myself over to being a more generic developer =)