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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

I still use those two on the rare occasions that I need them.  I've got 
Word Perfect V12.??.  I don't recall the version of Lotus.  I can't say 
I get much use out of either one these days.  For a couple of years, 
long ago, I used Lotus 1-2-3 to do my Federal and State income tax 
returns.  TurboTax came along and did it better. . . .