On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 15:15 +0000, A J Stiles wrote:
> On Monday 21 March 2005 11:39, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:
[snip]
>
> I remember Wordwise Plus on the BBC Model B. You typed your text on a
> 40-column screen, marked up with control codes; and it came out of an
> 80-column printer. This was for memory saving {the Beeb had a char-mapped
> display mode which used less memory than the bit-mapped ones} but it also
> implied an abstraction between content and presentation. When I first saw
> WYSIWYG word processing on a Mac, I found it flashy, but kind of annoying all
> the same.
>
> And I never saw the point of spreadsheets; they always seemed to me to be for
> capitalists.Nothing screams "British" like an unseemly attitude towards capitalism... > If I want to represent a table with many rows of labelled > columns, I'll use a database. Being a database administrator, I can guarantee you that RDBMSs and spreadsheets serve and fulfill vastly differing needs. Anyone who thinks they are equal is foolish in the extreme. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. $ python -c 'print len(str(2**3000000))' 903090
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