14 Apr
1999
14 Apr
'99
12:55 p.m.
On 14 Apr 99 at 9:36, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
I can imagine some nutty fanatical CS prof (like me) saying, "If you want
TRUE platform independence, then IGNORE all realities of the computer;
write your program for an imaginary computer that would be perfect for
your needs; then map the keyboard, etc. over to the layout that is present
on the real world computer."
Is that the way that it happened? Or was there some computer that
actually HAD those goofy keys? (There were eventually some aftermarket
add-on keyboards for the PC for WordPervert.)
Please do NOT interpret this as a defence for MSWeird!
That would be a Tesla way of engineering. So much development is incremental.
How to build a better mousetrap. As a result little of technology today is
truly innovative and if the scuttlebut is true, any that is, is bought up and
suppressed by the large corporations whose interest is the bottom line.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
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But what kind of computer would a satellite software
company have been
planning to run that program on before they ported it to the real world?
Hal ??