[Phpwm] wysiwig editor

[Chris Lovell]

> “Microsoft are taking PHP very seriously and if you have any thoughts,
email them and they will listen” or so the bloke says.

Mmm, I'll take that with a pinch of salt. It may have been a good few years
since we had a new Halloween document but that doesn't mean they've changed
their tune.

2009/3/6 Alex Mace <alex at hollytree.co.uk>

> .. 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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