8 Jan
1999
8 Jan
'99
2:04 p.m.
At 12:10 AM 1/7/99 GMT, you wrote:
Outlook? I can assure you that it is possible to
configure Microsoft
mailers to send formatted HTML (which IMHO should not be allowed at all) or
RTF in such a way that normal mailers simply see a plain text plus an
attachment.
Which, I might add, is a pita. I end up with a directory full of files
like "remessag" and "quantel" and such because of these stupid
attachments.
Overworks my hard drive, uses up disk space, and hides legitimate,
important files.
I dunno, but if you can't describe something adequately with plain text
plus attachements (as in included when necessary) perhaps you don't
understand your subject well enough. If you need to include formatting
(such as Word files or data or even code) it can be sent as an attachment
(which, I might add, is more useable than trying to cut and paste from an
e-mail message.)
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8 Jan
8 Jan
8:47 p.m.
Uncle Roger wrote:
I dunno, but if you can't describe something
adequately with plain text
plus attachements (as in included when necessary) perhaps you don't
understand your subject well enough. If you need to include formatting
(such as Word files or data or even code) it can be sent as an attachment
(which, I might add, is more useable than trying to cut and paste from an
e-mail message.)
What code (I assume we mean programming, not encryption) could ever
need formatting aside from appropriate indents? (The progam's
compiler shouldn't even require those).
--
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9 Jan
9 Jan
4:42 a.m.
New subject: Did Adam Osborne pirate the Osborne 01 ?
Interesting Web site hinting that Adam Osborne got his idea for the Osborne 01
from Xerox PARC.. Check out this web site, below is a
direct quote from the
article..
http://www.newmedianews.com/tech_hist/osborne.html
The Notetaker was another of the bright ideas that sprang
from Xerox PARC. But like many others, including the mouse it sported, it was
commercialized by someone else. In this case, Adam Osborne.
The former writer and publisher had paid a visit to Xerox. "Everyone was very
open at
PARC, and he saw all the drawings and asked a few questions, and left not
saying
anything," explains Gwen Bell, curator of The Computer Museum. "And the result
was, a
year or so later, you saw the plans for the Osborne 1, and it was very much
like [the
Notetaker]."
Phil...
6:45 p.m.
New subject: Did Adam Osborne pirate the Osborne 01 ?
Phil Clayton said...
|
|The Notetaker was another of the bright ideas that sprang
| from Xerox PARC. But like many others, including the mouse it sported, it was
| commercialized by someone else. In this case, Adam Osborne.
It's just as well that someone did it (if he did.)
Xerox Parc was notorious for not doing anything
with their brilliant research. If they'd run
with the computer stuff they had come up with,
we'd have been some seriously happy puppies by
now... And the PC/DOC world takeover probably
wouldn't have happened quite as it did.
Anybody who doesn't believe this needs to go do
some research on the Alto and Star.
-Miles
7:07 p.m.
New subject: Did Adam Osborne pirate the Osborne 01 ?
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Miles O'Neal wrote:
Phil Clayton said...
|
|The Notetaker was another of the bright ideas that sprang
| from Xerox PARC. But like many others, including the mouse it sported, it was
| commercialized by someone else. In this case, Adam Osborne.
It's just as well that someone did it (if he did.)
Xerox Parc was notorious for not doing anything
with their brilliant research. If they'd run
with the computer stuff they had come up with,
we'd have been some seriously happy puppies by
now... And the PC/DOC world takeover probably
wouldn't have happened quite as it did.
I have heard this comment over and over, and those who voice it
need to rethink what they are saying. Consider that PARC stands/stood
for Palo Alto Research Center. Emphasis on Research. It is not the
function of a research center to put things into production. That is
corporate's job. If you said 'Xerox was notorious for not doing anything
with PARC's brilliant research' there would be no disagreement at all!
- don
Anybody who doesn't believe this needs to go do
some research on the Alto and Star.
-Miles
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7:21 p.m.
New subject: Did Adam Osborne pirate the Osborne 01 ?
Don Maslin said...
|
|I have heard this comment over and over, and those who voice it
|need to rethink what they are saying. Consider that PARC stands/stood
|for Palo Alto Research Center. Emphasis on Research. It is not the
|function of a research center to put things into production. That is
|corporate's job. If you said 'Xerox was notorious for not doing anything
|with PARC's brilliant research' there would be no disagreement at all!
I sit corrected.
-Miles
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