Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site bu-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!bu-cs!root From: root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: Re: TeX on average crts. Message-ID: <468@bu-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 19:38:15 EDT Article-I.D.: bu-cs.468 Posted: Fri Jul 5 19:38:15 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jul-85 04:42:51 EDT References: <3285@dartvax.UUCP> <1710005@acf4.UUCP>, <1376@uw-beaver> Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci. Lines: 17 Just to throw my 2c in, ya oughta see what Xerox is doing with their systems: What you see is what you get editors (full font on 1K X 1K bit-mapped screens), ethernet print servers, integrated graphics and a lot more though last I saw they were *not* up to speed on technical typing (should be easy for them, there are some glimmers in the latest release of this happening.) Also, integrated text/research data-bases (ask about NoteCards.) My experience is on their Dandelions. I personally think that batch oriented text processors are on their way out rapidly (except maybe as intermediate languages.) Use troff/nroff if you need preview till your real system arrives. As the expression goes, you're probably kicking a dead whale up the beach. (hey, Fortran was great in its time also.) -Barry Shein, Boston University Usual disclaimers.