On 08/25/2013 09:01 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
That was a typo and should have been 15, as the original message said.
I know Lyrix was implemented first using XForms some time late in the
90s, but it must have been after 1995.
Not exactly. It began either in 95 or earlier, and the original widget
library was Motif, not Xforms. I had a linux box with motif (that I had
purchased) at the time, and would provide binaries with
statically-linked Motif for those who did not have their own (most linux
users did not, since Motif was never open-source. The "notif" clone was
not available then, either.
I haven't been able to find 0.7 or older source code for LyX, but
scanning my directories I found a file written in 0.7, in 1995. Here is
the header of that file:
#This file was created by <(null)> Sat Nov 25 02:07:18 1995
#LyX 0.7 (C) 1995 Matthias Ettrich
\lyxformat 2.10
The original versions did not display math at all, but showed any math
as ERT. It still was easier to work with (for me, anyway) than plain
LaTeX. Once the displayed math came along, it was much, much better.
Way earlier than that. I switched to Lyx after I completed my
dissertation (which I wrote in Framemaker, on a NeXt cube. Boy am I
old!).
<Topper>
That's nothing.
Framemaker? NeXt? Pampered upperclass brat.
The NeXt was such a pile. For the time, great GUI, but the CPU was
incredibly slow (Motorola 608030 if memory serves), and that r/w optical
drive!
Remember Wordstar (don't know which version) on plain MS DOS?
Oh, yeah. Plus various technical-writing programs, some more wysiwyg
than others, but the printout usually was horrible.
--
David L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
