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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: What do we REALLY want?
Message-ID: <1569@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 15:23:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 16 15:23:16 1985
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Summary: 

In article <960@erix.UUCP> mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams) writes:

>But really, I wouldn't do it that way at all. I would buy a Mac. Word
>processor users don't want UNIX type interfaces. Mice and icons and such
>like are so much better.

That's one opinion.  I wouldn't buy a Mac.  I find the mouse and those
cutsey-pooh icons a pain to use.  Some people find the Mac-style
interface easier to use, some find the Unix-style interface easier
to use.  There's room for both.

What was the first thing Unix was used for? TEXT PROCESSING! There
are all sorts of nice utilities for dealing with text.

One thing I haven't seen that would be nice is to take emacs, add the
functionality of ditroff, and use a bit-mapped display that shows a
full page of text, just as it will come out of the laser printer.
Does something like this exist?

As far as character sets go, it would seem that 16 bits (65536
possible characters) should be more than enough.  About 9000
for Chinese, and 7000 for Japanese, plus all the European
languages, some math and other symbols, and there should be
room left over for some simple graphics characters.  In fact,
15 bits should be enough, leaving one bit for parity or flagging.

Snoopy
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