Kids.! Remember SGML on the IBM mainframe? And did you know that you could use IBM punch cards as postcards?
________________________________ From: Wolfgang Keller <felip...@gmx.net> To: LyX Users List <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 9:01:08 AM Subject: Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor > > > And I say this as a LyX-only writer for the past 15 years or so. > > > > The first public LyX version was when? Can't have been much longer > > than 10 years ago. That was a typo and should have been 15, as the original message said. I know Lyrix was implemented first using XForms some time late in the 90s, but it must have been after 1995. And I didn't really consider it as usable around 1998, when I tried it the first time. Neither Scientific Workplace, which I tried as well at that time. I stuck with Framemaker back then. > Way earlier than that. I switched to Lyx after I completed my > dissertation (which I wrote in Framemaker, on a NeXt cube. Boy am I > old!). <Topper> That's nothing. Framemaker? NeXt? Pampered upperclass brat. Remember Wordstar (don't know which version) on plain MS DOS? </Topper> >;-> Sincerely, Wolfgang
