[Info-vax] Process a .pdf file ?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
>  
> 

Perhaps that the PDP family has been around several years longer than 
the VAX/Alpha/Itanic "family".  Perhaps also that PDP-11 is far less 
expensive than VAX/Alpha/Itanic.