Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 26. Feb 2025, 05:18:10
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:48:55 -1000, Lynn Wheeler wrote:
RISC ROMP was going to be for the DISPLAYWRITER follow-on running CP.r
and PL.8 ... but it got canceled (lot of that market was moving to
PCs).
And DisplayWriter hardware was replaced with DisplayWrite software. Which
was the world’s most popular word processor through much of the 1980s ...
even though most normal PC users had never heard of it.