Re: Microsoft makes a lot of money, Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 03:05:51 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 0:53:14 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

Anybody producing large amounts of high-quality, complex textual
material > (e.g. technical documentation) is inevitably going to have
to move beyond WYSIWYG tools and adopt some kind of markup system.

 
I disagree.
 
Word is just fine as long as all your drawings are *.jpg.

Yuck.

What feature do you think is missing ??

With plain-text formats, you can use standard *nix tools like diff and
patch to a) compare revisions, and b) merge revisions coming from multiple
sources. Add version control to that (of the type we software developers
have been using for decades), and now you have a complete revision history
of all your documentation.

Remember why SGML was created: that is the sort of thing used by, say,
aircraft and spacecraft companies to create and maintain the millions of
pages of technical documentation required to support and maintain their
products.