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From: leeway@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Do you like your Wang?
Message-ID: <934@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 10:26:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 22 10:26:19 1984
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Reply-To: leeway@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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Depending on how many users your office micro is going to have, why not considergetting a Fortune instead of a Wang.  (Note:  this is an unsolicited 
testimonial.  I'm a professional writer; my husband's a system programmer.   
We've owned a Fortune 32:16 single-user, 20 meg hard disk & quad density 
floppy about two months now.  And are still fairly pleased with it.)

Fortune's operating system is UNIX.  It also has an extensive set of menus for
non-programmers.  The word processing system is (I'm told) quite similar to 
wang's.  (It's overwrite though inserts are easy enough.  So is copying, moving between documents, and all the standard features.)  And if the menu system 
seems restrictive at any point, you can always dart into UNIX and do the job
from there.  (Get the Development Utilities, which include vi and nroff.  Or youmight also contact Rand for a copy of E15 or E17 (copyrights abandoned, source
available), if you dislike vi as an editor.

Fortune has uucp software according to their brochure.  I'm communicating with
you using a mere Virtual Terminal Emulator package, though.  Business programs 
and such are also available.  Multi-user format is possible and doesn't cost
much more than single user.  10 meg hard disk minimum; 20 meg suggested.  What
with UNIX (+ Development Utilities), Fortune:Word (and two advanced modules for
it), Multiplan, VTE, C, Kermit, and a number of medium length documents, our 
20 meg disk is about a third full.

--Lee Gold (213) 306-7456