Thanks Sharon. Couple of acronyms please?
>1. DCF and TeX development was independent to my knowledge. DCF was late
>70's around 78 (release 1) - same macro concepts implemented in Waterloo
>script by Bruce Utley and Roger Watt - called SysPub.
DCF?
DCF Data Communication Facility [IBM] + Data Compression Facility + Data Count
Field [IBM] + Driver Configuration File [Lotus]
I'm guessing Data communications facility?
Your area of IBM?
>4. DSSSL started in 1986-87 (overlapping with the final "tweaking" of
>SGML). FOSI started a bit later since it was clear that the DSSSL effort
>would take a while and the DOD was in a hurry. FOSI at first seen to be a
>placeholder for DSSSL. (We spend a great deal of time fighting the ODA
>wars).
??Open Document Architecture??
>6. James joined the DSSSL committee - I literally dragged him to a meeting
>at Hatherley Manor after I met him when I gave a talk on DSSSL to a local
>SGML UK user's group. Wouldn't let him go back to London. He stayed -
>took over much of the writing and the rest is history.
Thanks Sharon ;-)
>So you see Eliot you were not really inaccurate - had a few dates wrong,
>but only us old fogeys remember dates.
Just wait Sharon, those date's will fade :-)
Is fosi alive and well with DoD?
regards DaveP
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