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Xerox Ventura Publisher was popular before the 90's and ran on the GEM graphical desktop from Digital Research (the CP/M people). It was introduced in 1986. ht
by chasil 4y ago
Xerox Ventura Publisher was popular before the 90's and ran on the GEM graphical desktop from Digital Research (the CP/M people). It was introduced in 1986.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Ventura https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Ventura
Aldus PageMaker also had a very early Windows Port (1987).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker
One easy way to transfer files between early Macs & PCs was a null modem cable and terminal software that implemented Xmodem. Very long ago, I once pulled a DBase2 database off a CP/M system with 8" diskettes over a null modem cable by printing it to the serial port, and then I captured the output on a PC with Procomm.
There was a later "Laplink" program with a cable for parallel printer ports that ran faster than the 115kb max of the serial port.
- cameldrv 4y agoYeah or, if both of the computers had modems, you could even upload a file to a BBS and download it with the other computer. This was one area where some cross-microcomputer standards were actually coming together. You had: 1. RS-232 2. V.22 and V.22bis modems (higher speed wouldn't standardize for a number of years later) 3. Bell System Telephone lines 4. VT-100/ANSI escape sequences 5. XMODEM, then YMODEM and ZMODEM 6. ASCII character set and plain text files All of which come together to allow a lot of interoperability on this level. This type of standardization didn't really exist for: 1. Floppy drives 2. Hard drives 3. Monitors 4. Keyboards 5. Mice 6. Printers (beyond plain text over a parallel port, and even that wasn't the standard interface on many printers) Pretty much everything you could attach to a computer except a modem was nonstandard and different between different microcomputers.