Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 20:45:25 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: "'Christoph Kukulies'" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, "'invalid opcode'" <coredump@nervosa.com>, "'hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960227203843.3786B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960227093712.19218A-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Jake Hamby wrote: > 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 :-)? I don't think making a X aware Texinfo would be that hard.... > 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 Display Postscript Extension? As far as I remember it's not the Server but hardware - you pass Postscript commands directly to the graphics card... Were there such things widely available for the PCs, XFree86 would support them, I'm pretty sure. > scaling/rotation/styling very well (see the demo "texteroids" program that > comes with Solaris for an example)... > > ---Jake Sander
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