Sujet : Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution
De : bashley101 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (The Real Bev)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 14. Aug 2024, 05:47:14
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On 8/13/24 2:51 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:40:55 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:
A curious WP thing: I temped for some title insurance people for a few
weeks. They had a system where knowledgeable people would fill in
(pencil) a template with codes indicating various descriptions etc. for
the drones to type in. After a while I (a drone) realized that the
whole system was done with Word Perfect macro codes, a pretty slick
application.
So they were reinventing the kind of thing that typesetting markup systems
(troff/groff, TEX, SGML) have been doing for decades.
Possibly, but these were generating legal documents with a lot of legalisms of various sorts and combinations, not just making pretty documents. Same thing, I guess. I once did some sort of document using something that required typing in codes by hand and found it extremely unpleasant.
-- Cheers, Bev I see your point, but I still think you're full of crap. --Shea
50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution
Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution