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

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In article <hhv1b3$2sn$02$2 at news.t-online.com>, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
>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?

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