Peter wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Ake Hedman wrote: > >> Strangely IIRC hypertext was a big British thing. I had a company=20 >> that sold software from 1984-1992 and I can't count how many=20 >> hypertext application writers from GB who approached us as a=20 >> possible distributor. We sold some packages I now don't remember the=20 >> name of. In that light Sir Tim Berners-Lee's =20 >> work is understandable=20 >> and that it was destined to be someone British that would come up=20 >> with this. I don't know if it was written by a Britt but I think that=20 >> there was some hypertext application on the Apple machines that was=20 >> quite successful at the time. > > > Didn't the French already have the Minitel system by then ? And there=20 > was something called something else in Britain ? Here is a relevant lin= k: > > http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/carlson/history/TELETEL.HTM > > (back up one directory in the url for more history) > > Peter > > Interesting page. Forgot all about it. Yes they had. The Vidotext and CEPT system was very similar to Internet.=20 In Sweden videotext was used for home banking system and other info. In=20 1986 I coded a settop box for TV called Infratex with a IR remote QWERTY=20 keyboard. It was built using a 6305 (Hitachi but actually a Motorola=20 part ) and a French chip for Graphics/VideoText. It was used for=20 banking and airline traffic information for end users and our company=20 sold quite a lot of them. The Videotex system was no big hit in Sweden=20 like Minitel in France but then French people was sponsored with=20 terminals IIRC. As a subnote. Around this time IAR and other companies started to do=20 C-compilers for small micro controllers. I did C programming on higher=20 end systems at the time but was *very* much against C in low end=20 devices. Losing control was one of the arguments. But in todays light I=20 must admit was dead wrong. I'm still suppriced however to hear people=20 here on the list talking about coding in assembler on an 18F device with=20 all that code memory. Strange decision.... /Ake --=20 --- Ake Hedman (YAP - Yet Another Programmer) eurosource, Brattbergav=E4gen 17, 820 50 LOS, Sweden Phone: (46) 657 413430 Cellular: (46) 73 84 84 102 Company home: http://www.eurosource.se =20 Kryddor/Te/Kaffe: http://www.brattberg.com Personal homepage: http://www.eurosource.se/akhe Automated home: http://www.vscp.org --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist