Old MS-DOS & WIN Software

[Jim Leonard]

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

That's a bit elitist.  Some of us weren't that lucky.

> GUI's are not the way to print out stuff.

GUI is irrelevant.  When I was limited to a single font and 80-char/66-line 
output -- on a device capable of 200 DPI output -- I tore my hair out.  It's 
not my fault the only decent low-cost print systems were attached to a GUI.
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