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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 20:16:39 EDT
- Sender: Nota Bene List <NOTABENE@TAUNIVM>
- From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
- Subject: NB's Editor Development
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- Rob Rittenhouse writes:
-
- > Do they also have a code license for Signature (Xywrite IV)? If NB
- > is to have a future I do believe NBI is going to need a Windows/Os/2
- > version and I don't see them writing the whole thing themselves.
-
- I really don't know, although it seems unlikely at the moment. As you
- may remember, Signature was developed by XyQuest under contract to
- IBM, who later dumped it when they decided to go out of the end-user
- applications business to concentrate on systems and hardware. The
- specs that IBM required for Signature diverged significantly from the
- needs of Notabene development, and that was part of the motivation for
- DF acquiring the code rights to the current editor.
-
- I'd be willing to bet that WYSIWYG display, graphics and improved font
- usage are in the future development plans for NB, but I have no idea
- of the timetable and I doubt Signature is basic to those plans.
-
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