ChiWriter, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 21 relations: Computer font, Cyrillic alphabets, DOSBox, ESC/P, Font editor, Formula, GIMP, Graphical user interface, Greek alphabet, IBM Personal Computer XT, Microsoft Windows, Monospaced font, MS-DOS, Netpbm, PDF, PostScript, Proprietary software, TeX, Text editor, VirtualBox, WYSIWYG.

2. 1986 software
3. DOS text editors

Computer font

A computer font is implemented as a digital data file containing a set of graphically related glyphs.

See ChiWriter and Computer font

Cyrillic alphabets

Numerous Cyrillic alphabets are based on the Cyrillic script.

See ChiWriter and Cyrillic alphabets

DOSBox

DOSBox is a free and open-source emulator which runs software for MS-DOS compatible disk operating systems—primarily video games.

See ChiWriter and DOSBox

ESC/P

ESC/P, short for Epson Standard Code for Printers and sometimes styled Escape/P, is a printer control language developed by Epson to control computer printers.

See ChiWriter and ESC/P

Font editor

A font editor is a class of application software specifically designed to create or modify font files.

See ChiWriter and Font editor

Formula

In science, a formula is a concise way of expressing information symbolically, as in a mathematical formula or a chemical formula.

See ChiWriter and Formula

GIMP

GNU Image Manipulation Program, commonly known by its acronym GIMP, is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation (retouching) and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks.

See ChiWriter and GIMP

Graphical user interface

A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.

See ChiWriter and Graphical user interface

Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.

See ChiWriter and Greek alphabet

IBM Personal Computer XT

The IBM Personal Computer XT (model 5160, often shortened to PC/XT) is the second computer in the IBM Personal Computer line, released on March 8, 1983.

See ChiWriter and IBM Personal Computer XT

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

See ChiWriter and Microsoft Windows

Monospaced font

A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space.

See ChiWriter and Monospaced font

MS-DOS

MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.

See ChiWriter and MS-DOS

Netpbm

Netpbm (formerly Pbmplus) is an open-source package of graphics programs and a programming library.

See ChiWriter and Netpbm

PDF

Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

See ChiWriter and PDF

PostScript

PostScript (often abbreviated as PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language.

See ChiWriter and PostScript

Proprietary software

Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.

See ChiWriter and Proprietary software

TeX

TeX (see below), stylized within the system as, is a typesetting program which was designed and written by computer scientist and Stanford University professor Donald Knuth and first released in 1978.

See ChiWriter and TeX

Text editor

A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text.

See ChiWriter and Text editor

VirtualBox

Oracle VM VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and InnoTek VirtualBox) is a hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization developed by Oracle Corporation.

See ChiWriter and VirtualBox

WYSIWYG

In computing, WYSIWYG, an acronym for what you see is what you get, refers to software that allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed document, web page, or slide presentation.

See ChiWriter and WYSIWYG

See also

1986 software

• ATM SafetyPIN software
• Adobe FrameMaker
• Applixware
• Boids
• ChiWriter
• Corel Ventura
• Cotation Assistée en Continu
• Cyber Studio
• DISLIN
• Deluxe Music Construction Set
• Fontographer
• GEOS (8-bit operating system)
• GeoPublish
• GroupWise
• Harvard Graphics
• IBM AIX
• Instant Music (software)
• LISTSERV
• MORE (application)
• MS-DOS 4.0 (multitasking)
• Mathcad
• MicroRhythm
• Mini Office II
• NCSA Telnet
• Norton Commander
• PC Tools (software)
• PageStream
• Professional Adventure Writer
• SuperPaint (Macintosh)
• Systat (BSD)
• THINK C
• TOPS (file server)
• TRIX (operating system)
• Talking Moose
• The First XLEnt Word Processor
• TheDraw
• VP-Info
• World Builder

DOS text editors

• Brief (text editor)
• ChiWriter
• Edlin
• Epsilon (text editor)
• Freemacs
• JED (text editor)
• JOVE
• Lexicon (program)
• MS-DOS Editor
• MicroEMACS
• Mined (text editor)
• Multi-Edit
• PC-Write
• Personal Editor
• The SemWare Editor
• TheDraw
• VZ Editor
• Vim (text editor)
• WordStar

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChiWriter

Also known as Chi Writer.