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

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In article <oe6dnbsExJlqqtzWnZ2dnUVZ_uCdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>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.
>> 
>> Arne
>> 
>
>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.

VAX and Alpha.  There hasn't been any interest for IA64 so it wasn't
ported.

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