Re: [FRIAM] Perhaps of Interest to the (other) old timers here!

2023-05-18 Thread Stephen Guerin
Thanks, Owen. didn't know about JaM, another beautiful rabbit hole in computing history :-) JaM, the "John and Martin" page description language appears to come after John's Warnock's work at Evans and Sutherland on the ""The Evans and Sutherland Design System" for producing 3-dimensional graphica

Re: [FRIAM] Perhaps of Interest to the (other) old timers here!

2023-05-18 Thread Owen Densmore
On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 10:48 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Thanks, Steve! I enjoy these slices of history and peeking into the > discussions of the time on fundamental issues. > > Owen, were you involved with the Interscript project mentioned near the > end of the story? Interscript being the scrip

Re: [FRIAM] Perhaps of Interest to the (other) old timers here!

2023-05-16 Thread Stephen Guerin
Thanks, Steve! I enjoy these slices of history and peeking into the discussions of the time on fundamental issues. Owen, were you involved with the Interscript project mentioned near the end of the story? Interscript being the scripting of dynamic Interpress documents which later spun out to Posts

[FRIAM] Perhaps of Interest to the (other) old timers here!

2023-05-16 Thread Steve Smith
https://medium.com/chmcore/a-backup-of-historical-proportions-93f5f502f608 Interesting article on recovery of a huge cache of Xerox PARC archives which also references more than a little bit of both DEC and Adobe history. As I watch the live questioning of Altman on AI in Congress... "interes