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

Michael Kraemer M.Kraemer at gsi.de
Tue Sep 1 05:35:52 EDT 2009


Richard B. Gilbert schrieb:

> 
> Seems to me that there used to be a couple of word processors for VMS. 
> One was Word Perfect 

IIRC there also was a version for the Amiga.
I don't see Amiga folks coming back just
for the availability of an ancient WP version.

> and the other was DECWrite. 

Is it still part of modern SPLs?
Can it import Word files?

> I think there was even 
> a spreadsheet: Lotus 1-2-3.
> 
> If DEC had ever completed "rectal extraction". . . .  <sigh!>

If somebody had created an open source clone of DECxxxx
at the time when DEC dumped their software portfolio ...




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