[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 03-01-2010 19:36, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 03-01-2010 05:13, Michael Kraemer wrote:
>>> Arne Vajhøj schrieb:
>>>> And MS supply free readers for doc/xls/ppt as well.
>>>>
>>>> And they have publicized their formats as well, so
>>>> other can implement them.
>>>>
>>>> So the difference is ??
>>>
>>> that M$ didn't do this until their monopoly
>>> was completed. About fifteen years ago
>>> you'd had a hard time to view those proprietary
>>> formats properly on anything different than M$ Windoze+office.
>>
>> True. But you would have the same problems with Lotus, WordPerfect
>> etc. products.
>
> ISTR that there was/is WordPerfect for VMS. I'm quite certain that it
> was available about ten years ago. I'm not sure about now.

More like 15-20 years ago.

I have had WP on some VMS systems as well.

It worked very well.

And WP was a great word processor in the text world.

Then the text world was replaced by the GUI world.

> I wouldn't expect ANY word processor to be a huge success on VMS. It's
> damned difficult to run a WYSIWYG processor on a system that natively
> can output only ASCII text. You can run it on a workstation but I think
> it's a great deal cheaper to run it on a PC.

Is text/console more native on VMS than on any *nix?

But X based word processors were never a big success and
definitely not on VMS.

Arne