Tim Roberts wrote:
> It surprises many people to learn that virtually everything we
> think of as modern and interesting in computer science was first explored
> in the 1960s and early 1970s. GUIs, color, 3D, structured progamming,
> networking, interpreters, Unix; the list goes on and on. It was
Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>SAIL (Stanford AI Lab) had the first laser printer
>to play with (people wrote incredibly ugly documents with tons of fonts
>in them because it was the first they could spec it).
"Ransom note syndrome." Virtually everyone falls prey to this the f
Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:19:34 +0200, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> ...
>>> (I like well-typeset code in print though
> Possibly true, and definitely for Knuth. But WYSIWYG was unknown at the
> time; these people all programmed using fixe
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jorgen Grahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|>
|> Possibly true, and definitely for Knuth. But WYSIWYG was unknown at the
|> time; these people all programmed using fixed-width fonts, on teletypes or
|> character-mapped terminals. Hell, even full-screen editors were
