[Info-vax] Why are VSI so focused on Sweden ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-10-28, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 10/28/2024 5:43 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>> On 28/10/2024 20:09, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2024-10-28 at 15:08 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>                                                     lots
>>>> of educational institutions (out of 9 big higher education
>>>> institutions, then 3 were VMS shops, 3 used VMS some places
>>>> and only 3 did not use VMS).
>>>
>>> I developed an addiction to VMS at university during the 90s!
>> 
>> You obviously went to a good University!
>
> VMS was pretty common back then.
>
> Where I went:
> * VMS Fortran for programming intro -> VMS Pascal for programming
> * SAS on VMS for statistics
> * Rdb for database
> * DECtext for word processing -> WP 4.x on VMS for word processing

The last WP available for VMS was WP 5.{something}. I still miss not
having directly editable reveal codes as a standard feature in "modern"
word processors.

> * S2020 for spreadsheet
>

Never heard of that one, but Lotus 1-2-3 was available for VMS.

Simon.

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