2010/7/7 Zane H. Healy <[email protected]>:
> I don't believe you get CDE with OpenVMS/VAX.  I've found that with my
> Alpha's I prefer to use a WinXP box with free X-Windows software as my
> "X-Terminal".  Sadly the version of X-Windows that ships with Mac OS X is
> lacking.  Though I can still display apps on Mac OS X, I've never
> successfully gotten CDE running (I did under System 8).
>
> For any X-Windows apps running on VMS, I would think that even with SIMH/VAX
> this would be the preferable solution.
>

Actually, it's pretty easy to get CDE session running, at least on
Linux... The only thing you need is to enable TCP listening for X
server (most modern Linux distros have nolisten as default) and
disable access control (X -ac), and you have the login screen within
few minutes... :-)

Sergiusz
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