[Info-vax] Kermit on Itanium VMS

[Michael Kraemer]

Dennis Boone schrieb:

> One of the key things mickeysoft fails to understand is that _some_
> people do occasionally need to use old data.  We had a textbook written
> 25 years ago using MacWord 1.0 that we needed to read.  None of the
> Mac or Windows Words we could find would touch it. 

There's a reason they called it "Word" and
not "Book" or "Text".
Should have used [La]TeX, i.e. plain ASCII.

> Archivists these days are trying to figure out how to prevent the
> last 40 years of data and documents from vanishing down the ratholes
> of history. 

One might be tempted to say: if it's not printed on paper,
it's not worth keeping it.