[Phpwm] wysiwig editor

[alan dunn]

Steady Phil, I could get upset at this talk about your father.... I was 
an engineering student at Manchester (UMIST) when Ferranti machine 
number 2, was housed in its own purpose built 10 storey tower block 'The 
Ferranti Building' and even in those days was heavily guarded behind 
locked doors. We mere undergraduates weren't even allowed access to the 
puch card machines. We had to submit hand written code and wait for the 
results to come back on piano listing paper.

Then again maybe I am old enough to be your father!

alan dunn

Phil Beynon wrote:
>> -----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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