Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:40:41 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> 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.AUX.3.91.960227093712.19218A-100000@covina.lightside.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960227100616.2001D-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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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
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