Word: users
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very user-friendly, and makes life veryenjoyable for the resident." Jess C. Brown '95said. "The outside is nice, but you don't breakyour neck looking at it twice...
Both NT and Windows feature multi-tasking of this second sort. But NT does a better job as its task assignment algorithm is better. What all this means to the user is that while in NT you can format a disk and download files from your husc account at the same time, this is impossible with Windows...
There is also Steve Jobs' NeXTStep 486. Requiring even more computer power to run than NT, NeXTStep brings the much-acclaimed object-oriented interface of the now-defunct NeXT computer to PCs. While it probably features the best user environment of any computer, its hefty demands on the underlying hardware have kept the PC masses away...
From this description it's clear that TeX is not "WYSIWYG," or "What You See Is What You Get." With a WYSIWYG formatter, a document is displayed on screen as it will be printed on paper, so the user has a visual idea what the final product will look like...
With TeX, the user often has little idea how the document will look without printing out a copy. To make it less painful for the user and also to reduce paper waste, programs (also free of charge) exist that can display the document on a computer screen. Because such previewers are not a part of TeX, you often have to search hard around the Internet for them...