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Subject: Re: Mac as appliance
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Date: Tue, 10-Jul-84 18:37:14 EDT
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From: kato.PA@XEROX.ARPA
I agree with most of what you said. Here are my disagreements.

1,3) As far as beginners are concerned, MacWrite is good enough.  For people
who are doing serious writing (long docs, footnotes, etc...), there's
Microsoft WORD. MacWrite is a limited package targeted for simple users, it
doesn't need to be the "everything you ever wanted" package. For now, it
suits my letter writing and documenting needs quite admirably.

6) I'd like a font editor, but there's a chance that Ma and/or Pa Kettle
will screw up some of their fonts by accident. They could just grab the
font again from their master disk... No. They didn't use their m a s t...

10) I believe that Multiplan is back on the shelves. I also saw a disk
that said it was a demo for a program called the "Main Street Filer".
There are a few companies that are waiting to see if the Mac will catch
on before they devote resources to developing software for it. I know of
at least one of the companies that is listed on the Mac Developers poster
that is watching and waiting. I believe that this is a mistake. It's
pretty obvious that making Mac software is not the easiest thing to do.
Look at all the buggy packages that have come out. But that's just my
opinion. And my favorite beef: MacPaint is almost polished but I wish
Apple would DOCUMENT its capabilities!!!

Now, for major agreements.
5) !!!!!!!!!
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8) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought my eyes were going bad.

				Gary M. Kato
				Kato.pa@Xerox.ARPA