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

[Michael Kraemer]

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

for VMS (and UNIX) or just for M$ OS?