smallpicture.com - dave winer

Posted by Alvah Whealton
Dec 30, 2013 at 10:36 PM

In the 1980’s I was working as a programmer on the IBM mainframes. I had an 8 bit Zenith computer at home. My best guess is that I downloaded PC-Outline from Compuserve. I was incredibly impressed with PCO. The outline functionality fit my obsessive-compulsive nature very well. The PCO user interface was the most elegant I had seen up to that time. The program was extremely efficient, and very, very fast. Later, I would see programming software which provided templates for creating menus like those in PCO. I have always been curious about the PCO program. Does anyone know if it was written in assembly language or whether it was programmed with a higher level language? Its speed always suggested assembly level programming to me. But my background was with clunky compilers on a big mainframe, so I really don’t know. PCO still has an elegance that I don’t find in other software.

Al Whealton

Cassius wrote:
John Friend wrote GrandView. I telephoned him once and we spoke about
>it. Unfortunately, he had moved on to other things, and he had just
>moved and had no idea in which packing box his GV materials were.
> >-cassius