28 Jan
2005
28 Jan
'05
11:04 a.m.
From: "Vassilis Prevelakis" <vp(a)cs.drexel.edu>
"Randy McLaughlin"
<randy(a)s100-manuals.com> wrote:
Works out great since there are open source PDF viewers ;-)
Randy
[...] PostScript is useless in this
case since the documents are stored as graphical images and cannot be
used
on the classic computers.
What????
What makes you think that "classic computers" are character based?
I don't want to start a "my machine supported graphics earlier than
yours", but as a datapoint, I used a PERQ for my undergrad project in
the early 80s. Since this was running Unix V7 (or smth close), I am
sure you can get a postscript viewer running on it (or a tiff viewer
for that matter), while you'd have no chance in hell of getting
Acrobat Reader for it.
Which gives me a nice excuse to repeat my favorite line: I use open
source software not because it is free, but because I get to keep the
code (so I do not depend on the code author to port the software to
newer/different/stranger platforms).
**vp