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From: dclemans@mntgfx.UUCP (Dave Clemans)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: wysiwyg text processor
Message-ID: <371@apollo.mntgfx.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Jul-86 16:08:45 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  9 16:08:45 1986
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Organization: Mentor Graphics, Beaverton OR
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Keywords: LISTEN UP ATARI!!!
Summary: The ST and multiple fonts

The reason that the ST hasn't in general supported multiple fonts (except for some
"special" programs that have been floating around) is that the portion of GEM for the
68000 (GDOS) hasn't had a production release yet.  One company, MiGraph, is shipping
a preliminary version with their EZ-Draw package, but most companies are waiting for
the final version.

A final release of GDOS is supposed to happen "any day now" according to what I've seen
in messages on the Compuserve Atari Developers sig.  Products using it would come out
a few months afterwards.  I know of at least three wysiwyg text processors that are
scheduled to come out in the third quarter of this year, in anticipation of the
GDOS release.

dgc