[Info-vax] Process a .pdf file ?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <4sWdnd196oM7xJzWnZ2dnUVZ_qidnZ2d at giganews.com>,
	"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> Michael Kraemer wrote:
>> David J Dachtera schrieb:
>> 
>>>
>>> Not a question of "preference".
>>>
>>> Not a personal attack on you, but:
>>>
>>> "It's the applications, stupid!"
>>>
>>> If there were a suitable set of products available to run on VMS, folks
>>> certainly would do that.
>> 
>> And why don't "folks" just create the apps?
>> I mean, that's how they do it in Linux-Land.
>> 
>> 
> 
> At one point there were something like 5,000 applications available for 
> VAX/VMS.  DEC published a book an inch and a half thick that listed them 
>   together with contact information for getting the software.  My copy, 
> sadly, has vanished. . . .
 
I don't know about that.  My copy of the VMS Software Sourcebook is not
even an inch thick.  My PDP-11 Software Sourcebook, on the other hand,
is two volumes and 2 3/4 inches thick.  

What does this tell us?  :-)

bill
 

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