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From: al@escom.com (Al Donaldson)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Price of DWB 3.1
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Date: 23 Nov 90 16:37:16 GMT
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> The cheap DWB-2.0 I was refering to in this newsgroup is the Leverage
> Programmable Publishing System.  It's from Urban Applied Science,
> Inc.  They were showing at the Fujitsu booth at UNIX Expo.  According
> to their literature their port is currently available for 386's,
> 286's, Amdahl/Fujitsu UTS, and 3B2's.  Even on the Fujitsu it's only
> $500 (+$275 for devps).

Greg didn't mention Urban's Sun 3 version of DWB 2.  I don't know if 
Urban sells many of these, but I bought one (the first?) and it works fine.
I've cranked out well over a thousand pages of ditroff with embedded 
PostScript graphics for a Gov't contract using DWB 2 and devps (ditroff-PS 
filter from Pipeline Assoc.) on a NEC 890 printer.  Both DWB and devps cost 
around $600-$650 total -- your pricing may vary.

I am very pleased with both packages and I believe they stand up well
against the higher-priced products.  Even though both Urban and Pipeline
are fairly small, their support has been quite good (perhaps BECAUSE they
are small...).  

> 	Urban Applied Science, Inc.
> 	{attmail,uunet},!urban!sales
> 	(800) 872-8763
Also	
	Pipeline Associates
	201-731-7860

I know I've gotten off the track a bit here (talking about DWB 2.0),
but I just wanted to echo Greg's observations (say "Amen!")  I've not
followed this group recently -- can someone fill me in on the differences
between 2.0 and 3.1 (email is fine).  Why would I want to buy 3.1 if
2.0 is working so well?

Al