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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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