Non-ASCII languages

[Tim Roberts]

Scott David Daniels <scott.daniels at acm.org> wrote:
>
>SAIL (Stanford AI Lab) had the first laser printer
>to play with (people wrote incredibly ugly documents with tons of fonts
>in them because it was the first they could spec it). 

"Ransom note syndrome."  Virtually everyone falls prey to this the first
few times they discover desktop publishing.

>All of this was in the mid seventies or earlier.

Right.  It surprises many people to learn that virtually everything we
think of as modern and interesting in computer science was first explored
in the 1960s and early 1970s.  GUIs, color, 3D, structured progamming,
networking, interpreters, Unix; the list goes on and on.  It was probably
the most exciting time in the history of computers.
-- 
- Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.