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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: When will new WordPerfect be available?
Message-ID: <17666@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 16 Jan 91 05:41:55 GMT
References: <1991Jan15.192859.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> <1991Jan16.024225.12117@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jan16.024225.12117@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>In article <1991Jan15.192859.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> taab5@ccvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>>In article <17621@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>
>>> What do you want a word processor for anyway?  Real Men write directly in
>>> DTP programs.  Or in markup languages, like TeX or Scribe.  No word processor
>>> is powerful enough.  

>>   In short, I disgree with you.  Real men use Microsoft Word.

>  For doing school reports, I use a text editor.  Which is better than
>a typewriter. Fancy graphics and fonts are ok, but I don't think they are
>going to enhance your grade unless your teacher is impressed by bells
>and whistles.

	Actually, there was a study reported in Science News (I think, or the
WSJ) where students using Mac's tended to produce more-polished papers that
were somewhat inferior on content to ones produced on other machines.  The
assumption (far from proven) was that students on the macs spent more of their
time "prettying" their papers, laying them out, selecting fonts, and less time
reworking the wording or thinking about the contents.  There could be plenty
of other explanations, and this was one smallish survey.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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