[Info-vax] Powerterm version 9.2.0

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In article <cIOdnbWkU8D4ktbQnZ2dnUVZ_hydnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>On 2/3/2011 10:15 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> In article<00AAA711.A4A8A2F5 at sendspamhere.org>,
>> 	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>>>
>>>
>>> I have no problems at all with xterm or DECterm on Linux.  This is at a
>>> customer site that's using WEENDOZE -- poor hapless sods -- and running
>>> this Powerterm for terminal emulation.
>>>
>>> There is no WEENDOZE here.  Never had it; never will.  I have never had
>>> a need that couldn't be realized on a Mac or Linux or VMS systems.
>>
>> Really?  Seems to me that you need it to support this customer.  Sure
>> sounds like a "need" to me.  Unless your going to tell this and any
>> other potential customers using Windows to just buzz off.  How would that
>> affect the bottom line in a world dominated by Windows?
>>
>>>                                                                      Why
>>> do people insist on tormenting themselves with WEENDOZE?
>>
>> Becasue it pays the mortgage, which is more than people here have been
>> saying about VMS lately.
>>
>> bill
>>
>
>Well said!
>
>I would add that, while Windows had a difficult childhood and 
>adolescence, since the release of Windows XP SP-3  Windows is nearly as 
>stable as Unix or VMS and a lot easier to use than either!
>
>Can you get Turbo-Tax for Unix or VMS?  That, in itself is enough reason 
>to run a Windows system!  I have not yet run Windows 7 and cannot 
>comment on it.

Mrs. VAX has been doing Turbo-Tax on the Mac for years.  That dashes yet
another "oh, you have to have WEENDOZE" excuse."  And OS X is far simpler
and much more stable than WEENDOZE will ever be.

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