12 Dec
2005
12 Dec
'05
3:50 p.m.
Jim Leonard wrote:
Allison wrote:
But then we have TEX created under a unix system for real work.
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.
As to better docs... WordperfectV5/dos was better
than any of the MS
apps for that back then.
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.