Where should the type information be 338

fs (future system) was an effort that was targeted at all sorts of complex hardware descriptors ... there was some analysis that the worst case could have five levels of indirection (in the hardware) for each argument. one of the nails in the fs coffin was some analysis that if you took the highest performance technology available at the time from 195s for building an FS machine, the resulting application thruput would be about that of 370-145 (possibly 10:1 or 20:1 slow-down). in any case, fs was end before even being announced or publicized. specific refs:

misc. other references

to some extent, the start of 801-risc effort in the 70s was born to try and do the exact opposite of the FS effort ... and all complexity was moved to the (PL.8) compiler. misc. past 801

the precursor to XML was SGML

and before that was GML which was invented at the science center in 1968 plus 1:

g, m, & l are the last name initials of three of the people at the science center ... but officially was "generalized markup language" ... and an implementation was added to the cms "script" command for document formating (script had originally started off with dot-command formating controls) ... and gml allowed the separtion-independence of the specification of the document components from the specification of the formating of those compoents ... and some applications started using the specification of the document components for things other than formating. however there were other efforts at the science center along the lines of self-describing data ... one involved years of 7x24 performance monitoring data.

total trivia, the w3c offices are now only a couple blocks from the old science center location at 545 tech sq.

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