[Info-vax] OT: For Mr VAXman: Microsoft racist gaffe !

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Keith Parris schrieb:
> 
>> Hardware cost is the same -- any old PC. Emulation software is free: 
>> Personal Alpha from http://personalalpha.com/ or simh from 
>> http://simh.trailing-edge.com/. Licenses are free from 
>> http://openvmshobbyist.org/. The only cost at present is $30 for a 
>> OpenVMS Hobbyist media CD.
> 
> and what kind of apps should they run
> on this "personal alpha"?
> Which office suite does HP recommend?
> Or maybe some web browser?
> Oh, I forgot, web browsers are forbidden
> on a server-only OS.
> But running an OS just for itself is kind of boring,
> isn't it?
> 

Seems to me that there used to be a couple of word processors for VMS. 
One was Word Perfect and the other was DECWrite.  I think there was even 
a spreadsheet: Lotus 1-2-3.

If DEC had ever completed "rectal extraction". . . .  <sigh!>