(http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/the-real-history-of-wysiwyg/)
Personally, I prefer the LaTeX way of doing things...};-) ===== The Real History of WYSIWYG By John Markoff For those of us who grew up with Wordstar, an early and popular word processing program, as well as other software text editors, What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get text editing was a revelation. [...] [Chuck Thacker, a legendary Xerox hardware designer] revealed the real origins of the term. He said it was coined by his wife, Karen, who upon seeing an Alto running [the first true WYSIWYG editor] Bravo, turned to him and said, "You mean, what I see is what I get?" Mrs. Thacker is a true technophobe, he said in a phone interview Thursday, one who believes the best computers are the ones we don't see, like the ones in ATMs and in cars. ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
