13 Dec
2005
13 Dec
'05
12:18 a.m.
Rumor has it that woodelf may have mentioned these words:
Jim Leonard wrote:
>
>He wasn't talking about document creation, he was talking about printing,
>for which he is right on the money. If you used Word Perfect 5 for DOS,
>you were limited to the fonts your printer supported. If you used
>Geoworks, or Ghostscript (I used a retail package called "GOSCRIPT"), or
>Win 3.1, you could use any font you want and the print subsystem would
>just rasterize it as graphics.
Bingo.
But then we have TEX created under a unix system for
real work.
I had to drive 100 miles one-way to find Windows... I would have had to
drive 350 miles one-way to find a copy of a much costlier Unix. Tough to
justify that cost, even for a "real OS."
And with what SCO is doing now, I'd have felt just as dirty giving them
money as M$, at this point. ;-)
If Knuth can use it to print "The art of computer
programing" you have a
good system.
GUI's are not the way to print out stuff.
It is, if that's all you have available. Just because I didn't like it,
doesn't mean I'm not smart enough to make use of what's available.
And compared to the tools for DOS and CoCo3 OS-9, I could typeset much
nicer documents. I could typeset nicer documents *yet* on a CompuGraphic
PowerView 10 w/an 8216 optical typesetter, but I didn't have the $15K
necessary to purchase one of those, either. (But at least I wouldn't have
to drive far -- that's what I used whilst I worked at a printshop as a
graphic artist / typesetter. And it's an on-topic system, too! ;-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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