Windows LFN's (HP NewWave)

[Scott Stevens]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:48:08 -0500
Bill Sheehan <sheehan at sheehan.tzo.com> wrote:

> Back in the day, I bought a copy of NewWave after reading a glowing 
> review in one of the trade rags.  As I recall, it was so slow you
> could get ahead of screen refreshes doing nothing more than typing.
> 
> I still have the box sitting on my shelf, and one of these days I'm 
> going to fire it back up again.
> 
> -- Bill 
> 
> 
> On Mar 4, 2005, at 2:54 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
> 
> > Just found the following snippet in a 1990 document (someone's
> > review of
> > a GUI show which they'd attended). Just struck me as interesting in 
> > that
> > I never knew there was an alternative to 8.3 filenames in the
> > DOS/Windows world prior to Win95, nor have I ever heard of HP
> > NewWave before...
> >
> > Apparently also included macros/activity recording, associations 
> > between
> > data and application (e.g. double-click on a spreadsheet file and it
> > opens in the spreadsheet app etc.), and context-sensitive help.
> > Sounds like a winner, only I've never even heard of it...
> >
> > Apologies to the original author (who almost certainly isn't on this
> > list!) for the cut & paste!
> >
> > (I do like that first line :-)
> >
> > -------
> >
> > NewWave is a 'front end' to MSWindows to make them useable. It
> > provides a Filer facility which tarts up the MS-DOS filing system to
> > enable 30 character filenames with no obvious character set
> > limitations (ie it'll accept a space in the filename) and a
> > framework to interchange and combine multiple data types into one
> > document. This framework manages dynamic links between the document
> > and the original object which is contained in the document such that
> > when the document is reconstructed any changes to, say the
> > spreadsheet data, get reflected in, say, the report. Parts of
> > foreign objects can also be imported with the same results, eg a few
> > rows and columns of a spreadsheet can be imported to a
> > word processed document.
> >
> >
> >

HP NewWave was good enough that it got a backhanded 'endorsement' by
being a co-plaintiff with Microsoft Windows in Apple's look-n-feel legal
adventure.

Which, thank goodness, they didn't win.  License your X11 system from
Apple, anybody?

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