[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Scott Dorsey]

Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>I recall doing some system maintence, possibly upgrade, for Fred Rodgers 
>(Mr Rodgers World) at one time.  Maybe late 80s, or early 90s.  They 
>used a MVII for Word Perfect, perhaps.  Been a long time.
>
>So yeah, at one time VMS was used for desktop apps, in many locations.

Oh, yes, that was very popular still in the 80s.  At one point I worked at
a hospital whose research department wanted to do fast FFTs, but we were not
allowed to purchase a computer because only the MIS department was allowed
to have computers.  So we bought a multiuser word processing system, with 
16 terminals.  We discarded 15 of the terminals and the multiplexer, put in
a floating point card, got a copy of RT-11 and we were doing realtime 
processing of EEG data on our word processor!
--scott

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