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

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In article <7qgsuoFcd5U2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>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.

???  

First two what? And second two what?  I posted one URL.

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