[Info-vax] VMS Desktop system

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-09-14, Shark8 <OneWingedShark at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/14/2014 12:51 AM, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip 
> Helbig---undress to reply) wrote:
>> It is no problem to read PostScript, PDF etc on VMS.
>
> I think you misunderstood my parenthetical comment on PostScript -- is 
> wasn't about the rendering of files, but about possibly its use in the 
> display-system. Think Display PostScript.

VMS did have Display PostScript but unfortunately the license agreement
with Adobe was not renewed.

Various useful bits of functionality were removed from VMS as a result.

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