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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <oe6dnbsExJlqqtzWnZ2dnUVZ_uCdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> 
> I wouldn't expect ANY word processor to be a huge success on VMS.  It's 
> damned difficult to run a WYSIWYG processor on a system that natively 
> can output only ASCII text.  You can run it on a workstation but I think 
> it's a great deal cheaper to run it on a PC.

   Why in the world do you think VMS "can output only ASCII text"?  I've
   been using other data formats on VMS since 1980.