[Phpwm] wysiwig editor

[Lester Caine]

Phil Beynon wrote:
>>> Now THAT’s a GREAT idea!!! But why stop at Word, couldn’t we
>> just kidnap
>>> Bill Gates at age 6 months?
>> If only ...
>>
>> But the whole current fiasco is down to two simple mistakes IBM made
>> when designing the PC and not really expecting it to work. Using the
>> cheapest  processor that was available because no one else would use it,
>> and using a software house that did not even HAVE software.
>>
>> Just think what we would have today if a version of linux had been used
>> on any of the 32 bit machines available at the time? PC's were not cheap
>> ( I paid £5500 for an IBM AT! ) so a few extra pounds on something
>> decent would not have broken the bank :(
>>
>> --
>> Lester Caine - G8HFL
> 
> The problem is that with the same time machine you end up visiting a time
> where every single machine has its own operating system, own disk format,
> own applications, none of which port easily from one platform to another.
> Microsoft might not be to everyones tastes, but at least the original badly
> designed PC did something due to IBMs leverage - it set a standard.
> The Apple II and IIe at the time was debatably a better machine, but
> suffered from Apple's protectionism in not allowing far eastern clones.

I still have the books for Uniplus System V Unix on the shelf here. That 
was running on a number of the processors we were playing with at that 
time - heck I should still have the TMS99000 box around somewhere but I 
know the MC68000's were scrapped. They were similar prices to the IBM-AT
but there was no PCB layout software available :(

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Lester Caine - G8HFL
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