[VoiceOps] Vendor Pros\Cons

[Jeff Brower]

Mike-

> I believe this comes from the era when RAM was limited and only one  
> overlay/program could be loaded from the tape drive at a time

"tape drive" ... that's not an era, that's an epoch :-)

-Jeff

Quoting Mike Johnston <mjohnston at wiktel.com>:

> On 2021-12-23 08:08, Shawn L wrote:
>> The C15/20 series is still pretty much all CLI, despite the fact  
>> that they've been saying they've had a GUI for years (awful, awful  
>> java-based thing).
>
> The C15's CLI is not very intuitive, being a living relic of its DMS  
> heritage.  There are different overlays you need to load to get into  
> different administration areas of the C15.  I believe this comes  
> from the era when RAM was limited and only one overlay/program could  
> be loaded from the tape drive at a time. Much of that same paradigm  
> still exists in the C15's current CLI. The CLI is accessible via  
> serial and telnet, with no sign of ever being upgraded to use SSH.   
> There is no "up arrow" support.  That is, you can not press the up  
> arrow key to get the previous command.  There is also no left/right  
> arrow key support to assist you in modifying your current command.   
> Depending on your terminal settings, you may not have backspace  
> support either.  There is no API, and it is very tedious to automate  
> with expect scripts via the CLI.  Almost everything is in 3 or 4  
> character long keywords. You will eventually memorize many of them  
> (CNAM, CND, CNB, CFW, etc), but you will forever be looking up many  
> of these abbreviations in the manual (what is the difference between  
> TR TTYP TERL, TRAL, TRAO, and TRAP?  How do these interact with the  
> THGP or STN PICL setting?).
>
> As for the GUI, as Shawn said, it is Java based.  As such, just  
> assume it doesn't exist.
>
> _______________________________________________
> VoiceOps mailing list
> VoiceOps at voiceops.org
> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops