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

[Main, Kerry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On
> Behalf Of Richard B. Gilbert
> Sent: January-03-10 7:44 PM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution
> 

[snip...]

> >
> > "What is VMS going to do with email that has a picture in it?"
> >
> > How soon we forget.
> >
> > My recollection is that DEC invented Compound Document Architecture
> in
> > the mid 1990s. CDA applications supported embedded pictures (and
> other
> > embedded documents, even including multimedia). When properly
> > implemented, the documents could be displayed (and edited) as
> > graphical documents on a workstation (VMS or DEC UNIX), or in the
> > absence of a workstation there would be some fall-back format
> suitable
> > for display (or processing) as simple character-oriented stuff.
> >
> But it didn't ship with the O/S.  It was an add on at substantial extra
> cost.  Windows has the capability natively!
> 

When talking about document editing, how many people really use notepad 
and paint (Wintel native apps) vs. the commercial add-on's like Word, Adobe, 
Maya, Reflection etc?

Regards,

Kerry Main
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