Ralf, yes, efficiency might even be something or personal preference, I am not sure. I am fiddling with a „made-to-measure“ keyboard and stuff to get a single task system for me with mouse/foot-pedal and dedicated keys woven together, using non proprietory software („FreeDOS“ instead of Windows)
T. > Am 26.04.2021 um 05:59 schrieb Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com>: > > 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 > > > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
