From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 09:41:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA06554 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:41:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA06536 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:40:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by covina.lightside.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0trTOG-0009Z8C; Tue, 27 Feb 96 09:40 PST Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:40:41 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby To: Narvi cc: "'Christoph Kukulies'" , "'invalid opcode'" , "'hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Narvi wrote: > > It's VERY popular, though! :-) It has a lot of features from Unix (e.g. > > Winsock, memory-mapped files, etc..) and features that Unix will never have > > a standard for (e.g. context-sensitive hypertext help, unified printing > > system, unified TrueType font system, OLE). Now I agree that, for example, > > Man? GNU Texinfo? Ever heard about Adobe Type 1? I said A standard, not many competing standards, but maybe I should qualify myself a little. Sure, Unix has man pages and Texinfo, but can you call them up from within a GUI application (and not in an xterm :-)? As for Adobe Type 1, only a few COMMERCIAL Unixes have the Display Postscript extension in the server, without which you can't do font scaling/rotation/styling very well (see the demo "texteroids" program that comes with Solaris for an example)... ---Jake