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From: lantz@Vicor.COM (Keith Lantz)
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Subject: Re: BBN/Slate users?
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Date: 10 May 91 17:19:59 GMT
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>> okay - it is very good - a lot of our people here use it as a standard
>> multi-media document editor, as it is better than a lot of products at
>> that, and becuase they can then exchange the documents at source
>> level, instead of struggling with different postscripts, which is
>> what most other sysatems reduce one to:-(

Well, as my buddies at BBN could tell you, I've been something of a fan of
Slate for years (primarily for its teleconferencing abilities, and most
recently for its spreadsheets), BUT... now that I'm in the business of
recommending things like this to clients (VICOR is a systems engineering
firm) I must say Slate and its prospective competitors are hard sells. It
would certainly help, for example, if Slate performed as well as Framemaker
on X terminals--as I already suggested in my previous message--or
accommodated Bob Weiner's other "gripes" (including providing a Motif user
interface (with many fewer levels of menus!) and making it easier to
override paragraph formats).

So, help me out, Slate users: What do you REALLY use Slate for? And why do
you use it instead of more "standard" (and sometimes more usable)
alternatives?

Keith A. Lantz                          Voice:  +1 415-324-8073
VICOR Inc.			        FAX:    +1 415-324-1408
525 University Ave., Suite 1307         E-mail: lantz@vicor.com
Palo Alto, CA 94301