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

[seasoned_geek]

On Sep 1, 4:35 am, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert schrieb:
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> > Seems to me that there used to be a couple of word processors for VMS.
> > One was Word Perfect
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> 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.
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> > and the other was DECWrite.
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> Is it still part of modern SPLs?
> Can it import Word files?
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> > I think there was even
> > a spreadsheet: Lotus 1-2-3.
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> > If DEC had ever completed "rectal extraction". . . .  <sigh!>
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> If somebody had created an open source clone of DECxxxx
> at the time when DEC dumped their software portfolio ...

Don't quote me, but I believe I read of a port of OpenOffice