Around 1980 the advent of microcomputers vastly changed the
computing scene, first in the US, followed by Europe. The time when the (rare
and expensive) computers were only the tool of professionals was coming to an
end. Old dreams of all these people, to have a true computer on your desk, not
just a terminal of a large mainframe computer operating in multi-tasking mode,
was gone. Primož Jakopin saw the opportunity and started developing tools that
could be used by non-professional users, mostly from the humanistic sector, and
a text editor, not furnished with the first widely available consumer-style
machines, was the program he began with. Such affordable computers were primarily intended
for playing games, but with suitable software they could be used for quite
serious tasks, previously only possible on large-scale computers.
To the simple text editor, aimed at writing and correcting text, he
gradually added data base capabilities, using his skills acquired during the
construction of mainframe bibliographic data bases which he made in the 1970s,
augmented with data entry.
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| INES reference manual (in Slovenian), 1985 and STEVE reference manual (English), 1989 |
The above pictures are the front pages of reference manuals for INES
(INformation Editing System, Sinclair ZX Spectrum microcomputer) and STEVE (ST
EVent Editor, ATARI ST microcomputer). A click on each picture shows the
relevant manual in full.
INES and EVA were followed by Eva, an expanded version of STeve,
written for the IBM PC-class microcomputers, operating under DOS (Eva for DOS),
Microsoft Windows (Eva) and Microsoft Windows Server editions (Neva). While Eva
is a single-user program, Neva is a search engine which handles data query
requests, written by the user over an Internet browser such as Mozilla Firefox
or Google Chrome. An example is the Nova beseda corpus of texts in Slovenian at
the Fran Ramovš Institute of Slovenian language ZRC SAZU, at the address:
http://bos.zrc-sazu.si/a_beseda.html.
Try typing the word jamarski into the search box and click on Submit to
see the results.
More about Eva is under construction.
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