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

[Arne Vajhøj]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 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.

WordPerfect and Lotus - the best software one could buy 20 years ago.

But I think the keywords are "20 years ago".

:-(

Arne