13 Dec
2005
13 Dec
'05
2 a.m.
Subject: Re: Old MS-DOS & WIN Software
From: Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:32:27 -0600
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Allison wrote:
Ah yes, then again I was using other stuff to do that.
Allison
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.