ePub is making inroads because it is accessible and device scalable, but PDF isn't going away any time soon. It surprises many that BookManager is still in active use today (there were also subsequent Windows and mainframe editions), thought its use is finally fading. ![]() (many don't know the the GML acronym is also the first letter of the last names of the three men that invented machine-independent semantic markup - Goldfarb, Mosher, and Laurie). ![]() BookManager was used mostly by fortune 500 companies that bought and used IBM and competitor products IBM produced millions of pages of product doc written using Generalized Markup Language (GML), which was very popular back then, and is the foundation of SGML, HTML, and XML. The most pervasive DOS book reader from the early 80's - before Windows and faster machines - was IBM BookManager. ![]() ![]() Prior to Acrobat 1.0, there were no general eBook readers that weren't proprietary.
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