Old MS-DOS & WIN Software

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that woodelf may have mentioned these words:
>Jim Leonard wrote:
>>
>>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.

Bingo.

>But then we have TEX created under a unix system for real work.

I had to drive 100 miles one-way to find Windows... I would have had to 
drive 350 miles one-way to find a copy of a much costlier Unix. Tough to 
justify that cost, even for a "real OS."

And with what SCO is doing now, I'd have felt just as dirty giving them 
money as M$, at this point. ;-)

>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.

It is, if that's all you have available. Just because I didn't like it, 
doesn't mean I'm not smart enough to make use of what's available.

And compared to the tools for DOS and CoCo3 OS-9, I could typeset much 
nicer documents. I could typeset nicer documents *yet* on a CompuGraphic 
PowerView 10 w/an 8216 optical typesetter, but I didn't have the $15K 
necessary to purchase one of those, either. (But at least I wouldn't have 
to drive far -- that's what I used whilst I worked at a printshop as a 
graphic artist / typesetter. And it's an on-topic system, too! ;-)

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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