2 Dec
2014
2 Dec
'14
6:56 a.m.
On 02/12/14 9:53 AM, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
Yes, Mark, it was a poor old ultra5 that I used for
the Diablo last night
as well, but running snv_65! That hardware, while pretty cheap and rafty,
does have a mysterious tendency to last a long time.
I had thought TeX was line printer friendly at some point and only later
evolved to support matrix-type devices?
No, it was designed for typesetters and bitmap printers, although people
probably did hack dvi->ASCII previewers. You could still sorta read
proofs that way...
I had purchased Wordperfect for Linux some decades ago. It was quite
brittle, but mostly worked. Didn't try the cli version, just gui, which is
regrettable. iirc it was ported via java, so maybe my old copy would work
on other unixes (or whatever random java hosts) as well?
--Toby
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Mark Wickens <mark
at wickensonline.co.uk>
wrote:
> Jacob, I went along a similar journey with VAX to find a terminal based
> word processor. ...