From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 10:47:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA11647 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:47:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA11628 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:46:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA03838; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 20:45:25 +0200 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 20:45:25 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Jake Hamby 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, 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