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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <00A97168.66C892A0 at sendspamhere.org>,
	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> 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?
> 
> Visit: http://www.ProvN.com/
 
Did you?

The first two are not links and the second two are dead links.

bill

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