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I sat next to Prof. Knuth in 1982 at Stanford, while he did a demo of TeX on the university's DEC-10. I asked him what was next? He said: real-time, WYSYWIG dis
by GnarfGnarf 7y ago
I sat next to Prof. Knuth in 1982 at Stanford, while he did a demo of TeX on the university's DEC-10. I asked him what was next? He said: real-time, WYSYWIG display.
At the time, the idea struck me as utterly impossible.
- xyproto 7y agoThe future is now.
- todd8 7y agoBack in the 80’s I worked as an OS software architect. I used to do a mental exercise occasionally. I would imagine how I would design things if processors were infinitely fast. Back then we were still following Moore’s law, even for single processor machines. Processor speed, memory size, disk speed, and network speed all put hurdles up for what we could do. I remember talking to a colleague about the possibility of a TeX system that would rerender a page as it was typed in one screen and viewed in another. Ok