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From: "Michael Kraemer @ home" <M.Kraemer@gsi.de>
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Subject: Re: New VSI post on Youtube
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 18:19:59 +0200
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Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-08-18, Michael Kraemer <m.kraemer@gsi.de> wrote:
> 
>>On 18.08.2024 03:59, Dave Froble wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Well, one could argue that paper and ink are also "not VMS" ...
>>>
>>>VMS is the OS ...
>>>Documentation is, well, whatever it is ...
>>>
>>
>>well, one could argue that a real OS should not depend on another one to 
>>be fully functional.
> 
> 
> That has not been true for VMS since physical terminals were replaced
> with terminal emulators.
> 
> Simon.
> 

mmh, no.
VMS was most popular when "everybody" had a VMS workstation on the desktop,
connected to a few VMS servers somewhere in a basement.
No need for a stinking PC anywhere.