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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: Desktop publishing
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In article <1991Mar29.215715.12571@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:

   The MacEvangelists who said that were wrong then and the NeXT people who say
   that are wrong now.  (First of all, MacWrite was NOT a good word processer.
   It was a barebones word processor.  Word was the first one with enough power
   to do even a high school paper (no footnotes in MacWrite...) )

If you remember correctly, it took a year before Word was available
for the Mac.

   Those who bought the mac were betting on the availability of software in
   the near future, when it was needed.  It turned out to be a good bet for
   many.  I don't think it is going to be such a good bet for NeXT.

You are already wrong.  Great software is already hitting the market.
FrameMaker, Word Perfect, Lotus, and Adobe, plus several new companies
that are going to make their fortunes like Stone Design(Create).

-Mike