The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: > I was the one advocating Script for word processing, not John. If IBM ever > ports the products to Linux or OS/2, I'll start using them at home. original script was done at the science center http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech for (cp67) cms, in the mid-60s ... carry over from ctss application ... used "run-off" like "dot" commands (i may even still have an old, hardcopy script manual in a box someplace). reference to the CTSS command http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/CC-244.html gml was invented at the science center in 1969 ("g", "m", and "l" are initials of the last names of the three people involved) and a decade or so later went thru the international standardization process for sgml http://xml.coverpages.org/sgmlhist0.html http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/roots.htm other post posts mentioning gml, sgml, etc http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#sgml gml tag processing had been added to script ... and for quite some time ... you could find documents that contained a mixture of "dot" formating commands and gml "tags". the cp67 and vm370 documents were done with script ... and its use perculated into the rest of the company. one of the first such use was for principles of operation ... which had two flavors ... that could be controlled with cms command line option ... producing either the "full" architecture manual or the principles of operation subset. univ. of waterloo did a lot of vm370/cms based stuff ... including a script clone ... which found its way to a number of customer installations ... the following discusses the evolution at cern from sgml into html: http://infomesh.net/html/history/early and cern sister lab, SLAC had the first webserver outside of europe, on the slac/vm system http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml waterloo script page http://csg.uwaterloo.ca/sdtp/watscr.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
