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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Is Fullwrite dead?  Well, it's been coughin' up blood all year...
Keywords: Ashton-Tate FullWrite lousy support
Message-ID: <36908@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Dec 89 00:44:53 GMT
References: <30464@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <12900@fluke.COM>
Organization: Life is just a Fantasy novel played for keeps
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>>	I recently saw a presentation by Ashton-Tate's sales force. We
>>were told to expect FWP 2.0 in the coming Spring. Luckily, FWP has
>>never been late for a delivery -- so we can COUNT on this prediction!!

Well, when FWP first came out, I was told that 2.0 would be out in the fall
[they'd asked me to be a beta tester]. Then, in the fall, I was told it'd be
out in April, and 1.1 would be out in December. Then, 1.1 actually made it
out, and they were talking September again. Now, they're talking Spring
again.

So far, they're right on schedule, assuming you realize they never mentioned
years. I figure 2.0 will be out whenever it'll be out. Or maybe not; I'm not
sure I care. FWP is 85% of the perfect word processor, but I"m tired of
waiting for the rest -- I'm comfortable with Word 4, and it'll have to
convince me it's worth switching. The missing 15% is enough to keep me from
using it, unlike Jeff (I spend too much time moving lots of text into
Pagemaker and back and forth to Unix boxes, and Fullwrite makes both of
those a hassle).

I'm personally tired of searching for the grail of the perfect word
processor. I'd rather spend my time writing and using it than constantly
learning new command sets and quirks. Word is Good Enough and I'm used to
it, and so something will have to be really neat to make me take a second
look. When/IF FWP 2.0 comes out, we'll see. But I"m not losing any time,
energy or productivity waiting for it.

-- 

Chuq Von Rospach   <+>   chuq@apple.com   <+>   [This is myself speaking]

When it comes to matters ourside your specialties, you are consistently and
brilliantly stupid [....] with respect to matters you haven't studied and
have had no experience basing your opinions on casual gossip [....] and
plain misinformation -- unsuspected because you haven't attempted to verify it.
	-- Robert Heinlein to J.W. Campbell, Jr. 1941