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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/29/2024 9:11 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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}.

Yes. I even think we did update even though when that happened
people were in the process of moving to DOS.

DEC's own word processor was WPS. Under ALLIN1 or standalone.

>                                                      I still miss not
> having directly editable reveal codes as a standard feature in "modern"
> word processors.

You don't feel tempted to edit the XML of today's word processors?

:-) :-) :-)

Yes - I liked that feature as well.

>> * S2020 for spreadsheet
> 
> Never heard of that one, but Lotus 1-2-3 was available for VMS.

I think it is this one:
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20/20_(spreadsheet_software)

I believe the command to start was s2020.

Glen Everhart also did a free spreadsheet for VMS
(ported to Linux since then).

Arne