[Phpwm] wysiwig editor

[Alex Mace]

.. had t'pay mill owner for permission to come to work...

:-D

On 6 Mar 2009, at 09:56, alan dunn wrote:

> 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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