Old MS-DOS & WIN Software

[woodelf]

Jim Leonard wrote:

> Allison wrote:
>
>> 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.

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.