[Phpwm] wysiwig editor

[Phil Beynon]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: phpwm-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:phpwm-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Lester Caine
> Sent: 05 March 2009 14:42
> To: West Midlands PHP User Group
> Subject: Re: [Phpwm] wysiwig editor
>
>
> 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 :(
>

Somewhere there is a Mercury Autocode handbook for a Ferranti Atlas around
here! I hasten to add this was something my father worked on way back when,
I'm not that old!
It makes interesting reading though!


Regards,

Phil Beynon
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