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Those were the days
Jim Lynn Started conversation Mar 21, 2003
http://www.neowin.net/articles.php?action=more&id=53&perpage=1&pagenum=2
From a 'visual history' of Microsoft Windows, some screenshots of Windows 1.0. I was particularly amused by the comment in the drawing program bottom left (no big version unfortunately): "None of that nice RISC OS font anti aliasing around here!"
Being an old Acorn hand, this made me laugh.
Those were the days
Jim Lynn Posted Mar 21, 2003
Actually, they just didn't link to it. Here's the full size image:
http://www.neowin.net/staff/creamhackered/articles/windowshistory/1985-Windows%201.0/windows104.gif
Those were the days
Jim Lynn Posted Mar 21, 2003
(and I'm so glad I've put in that URL compressing code, otherwise my personal space would look terrible now.)
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Rho Posted Mar 21, 2003
I remember when "DOS Shell" was the only GUI that I used. 
RhoMuNuQ
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Jim Lynn Posted Mar 21, 2003
I wrote several ROMs using only the BBC Basic line editor. But at least that had the curosr key/copy facility to save time.
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SEF Posted Mar 21, 2003
You can imagine how I felt on the Apple IIe when the 'I' key went wrong (something stuck under it?) and all I had were the cursor and copy keys to get one into program text. The 'I' is rather important for words such as LIST, DIR or PRINT. I had to think of commands I could use to get the computer to put an 'I' on the screen again so that I could copy it! 
Those were the days
SEF Posted Mar 21, 2003
They didn't work properly for me either - something about the service being busy and try again later. That could of course be part of the joke except I don't recall Windows being that polite. Even in the very early days all it did was crash.
Those were the days
Jim Lynn Posted Mar 21, 2003
I think the server might be slashdotted - that's where I got the original link. Wait a while and they might come back.
Those were the days
Frankie Roberto Posted Mar 21, 2003
Yeah not working for me either - I'll try later.
The URL compressing is good though Jim, discovered that the other day on collective (where it's essential).
Those were the days
Jim Lynn Posted Mar 21, 2003
The beauty of XSLT - you can do clever things like that.
Those were the days
Frankie Roberto Posted Mar 21, 2003
Well, you can if you're clever...
Though my myspace in collective is still too wide because of an url in my weblog/journal.
Those were the days
Jim Lynn Posted Mar 21, 2003
I might make the widths differ depending on where they are being displayed...
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Mar 23, 2003
could someone explain what link compressing is?
I am a young hand, I go as far as DOS BASIC and A86 Asm. never had a BBC Micro, could have done with an Amega or somthing tho'.
-- DoctorMO --
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SEF Posted Mar 23, 2003
If you view source or hover your mouse over Jim's link you should see that the actual URL is different from the displayed URL. That's one sort of compression as far as page display goes. Another sort which affects what you can actually type as a URL uses frames or web-forwarding.
Those were the days
DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Mar 23, 2003
Ah I see, the ... in between, very clever.
Be easy in Perl, but I bet it's a pain in C++
-- DoctorMO --
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Jim Lynn Posted Mar 23, 2003
What's so hard? With a decent string class it's as easy as with perl.
But this was done with XSLT anyway.
Those were the days
DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Mar 23, 2003
hmm, I must have always tried to use my own, I ported my InStrEx function from VB to Asm, and used a compiled DLL, which was quite good for what I needed to do. but I bet using the string functions built in would be a better way to go.
-- DoctorMO --
Those were the days
SEF Posted Mar 23, 2003
Well therer are some moronic commercial implementations of C++ which might give one grief over the strings but I prefer C anyway. Object orientedness is a state of mind rather than a necessary condition in a language. There seem to be a fair number of Perl fans around on h2g2 though. Have you compared notes with Spelugx (who seems to be one)?
Those were the days
DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Mar 23, 2003
Perl is very flexable when it comes to strings, and it's mainly because you don't need specific variable types.
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