On 4/23/2021 1:44 PM, Thomas Desi wrote:
Hi Ralf,
good to focus on the “whys”.
You said:
| “Nor would I do any graphics work in DOS, or any word
| processing these days.”
I did get into DOS because of “word processing”.
More precisely it is a text-processing tool(!) EVA.EXE which was developed by
Primož Jakopin in the 1970ies and 80ies, ported to TOS on Atari, in the 1990ies
to DOS and WINDOWS. I re-discovered it last year on his site and also got in
good contact with him. He still is working on it...
I am not sure if that is any more efficient for at least 99.99% of all
use cases then using LibreOfiice/OpenOffice Writer, Microsoft Word or
WordPerfect on Windows or Linux GUI based systems.
Moreover, I am a German native and Primož Jakopin is from Slovenia. Especially
the letter was a challenge in the past (ASCII code page) to get all diacritics
right. This has changed since, using UTF-8, which has appeared in DOS via
MinEd, Blocek ed. al.
But that is heavily dependent on those application, as anything but
single byte ASCII variations aren't native to DOS...
Still an excellent tool I consider TROFF, now GROFF, for Unix/Linux -which also
exists for Windows, appeared in 1990 (Version 0.3.1) by James Clark) coming
from “a text-formatting program called RUNOFF, which was written by Jerome H.
Saltzer for MIT's CTSS operating system in the mid-1960s!
I wouldn't touch any of that stuff with a barge pole these days. Either
LibreOffice Writer already fits the bill, or I would much rather use a
tool like Scribus these days...
I am still wondering if there might be a comparable product like the
“Raspberry” but for an architecture that allows for FreeDOS natively?
Yes, there are such products, unfortunately not for the same price point...
Ralf
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