[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Thu Jan 29 18:32:45 EST 2009


In article <8oOdnd5eZIKLuB_UnZ2dnUVZ_rrinZ2d at giganews.com>,
	"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>>> you think?  So, then, how useful was VMS in Germany or France?
>>> Did you ever think that perhaps there is a German version of VMS?  
>> 
>> None that I am aware of.  perhaps one of our German readers will jump
>> in here and clarify that for us.
>> 
>>>                                                                   One 
>>> that speaks to the natives in their own barbarous tongue?  I'm pretty 
>>> sure that there is a Japanese version of VMS that types Nihongo in kata 
>>> kana.  Likewise, German, French, Italian, Hebrew, Arabic. . . .  Would 
>>> you believe any language that there is a sufficient market for?  (There 
>>> are something like 7,000 known human languages, some of them spoken by 
>>> only a few dozen people.  It's not possible to support them all but I 
>>> suspect that most of the major languages are supported.  I doubt that HP 
>>> would support 700 languages, let alone 7,000 but I have no trouble 
>>> imagining a dozen or two of the major languages.
>> 
>> Actually, I just went to the HP Documentation site.  If you go to
>> OpenVMS Docs there is a table on the side with other languages listed.
>> If you click on any language other than English all you get is HPUX
>> documentation.  Looks like it's English or nothing for VMS.
>> 
> 
> On their English language web site, I wouldn't really expect to find the 
>   German or French documentation.

Read what I said.  They list other languages on the web page but all you
get in languages other than english is HPUX documentation.  If you can
point me at German or French documentation, please do.  I would love
to see if they actually have a "streichen", "kopiereen"  or "verzeichnis"
command.  :-)

bill

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