Old MS-DOS & WIN Software

[Allison]

>
>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:
>> 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.

Ah yes, then again I was using other stuff to do that.

Allison