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

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In article <4b4138f2$0$269$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>On 03-01-2010 19:36, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 03-01-2010 05:13, Michael Kraemer wrote:
>>>> Arne Vajhøj schrieb:
>>>>> And MS supply free readers for doc/xls/ppt as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> And they have publicized their formats as well, so
>>>>> other can implement them.
>>>>>
>>>>> So the difference is ??
>>>>
>>>> that M$ 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.

and still available.

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