On 24/05/06, Roger Oberholtzer <roger@opq.se> wrote:
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 20:06 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
All these were invented on UNIX ...
- [WYSIWYG] Word Processor - Desktop Publishing (DTP)
For these I happily remember using FrameMaker on HP-UX long before Windows had anything close. I remember this because we looked for a Windows 3.1 (which it was at the time) app doing the same thing, with no success. The closest came a few years later: Venture Publishing from Digital Research. MS' offerings were later than that. So MS were not even first on their own OS platform. IIRC, DR had to make an environment called GEM in which to run VP because Windows was so bad for this type of application.
I'm not sure that I've seen the original post to this but, it seems as though we are talking about DTP type packages? If so, MS were very late into the game on this. Aldus Pagemaker was out and running on Win 3.1 many years ago (12 to 13 perhaps?). Prior to that it was first out on Macs. It was later took over by Adobe. MS's first DTP offering was the abysmal (and still is) Publisher. I'd rather use a good word processing package than Publisher. With apologies if I have misread the post :-) -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== PLEASE DON'T drink and drive it's not clever, it's just stupid. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR