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Old 02-23-2022, 07:19 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by OtinG View Post
The Macintosh brought us WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) making formatting so much easier and more precise. Eventually MS Windows came along and offered WYSIWYG too, but it took several years for that to happen.
Xerox introduced the world to WYSIWYG on their Star system a few years prior to the other Steve's Apple Lisa, which preceded the Mac.

I had the misfortune to work on a WANG VS for a short while, they were an IBM 360 clone of sorts that tried to compete with DEC VAX, Prime, DG, etc

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