Sujet : Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 13. Aug 2024, 22:51:35
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Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider
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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.
50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution
Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution