Just something coming up to my mind: A couple of years ago, a friend of mine who is in the layout business had a business himself and was working with a program named 3B2 (at least that's what I remember - its name was derived from a postcode in England).
There were 2 features I remember rather cool: 1. Layers were indicated as frames in different colors around the text/image boxes. 2. With a special key you could call a small input dialog, just 1 line or so, for invoking special formatting codes. I think my friend explained to me that these were the codes for a machine previously used for layouting in the printing world (Linotype???). Anyway, formatting was made ridiculously fast by just typing some codes, and the whole paragraph or text was re-alined. (He admitted that hardly anyone from the DTP world knew these codes anymore and he considered himself kinda dinosaur still using them...) The app was running under DOS(!), consuming a lot of memory (for that time) and brought its own graphic subsystem. Meanwhile he gave up his own business and joined his brother's firm, but now they use other programs of course :-) Rolf
