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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: 1st_word and prices...
Message-ID: <248@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 23:21:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.248
Posted: Thu Sep 11 23:21:23 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Sep-86 20:15:22 EDT
References: <8609111546.AA03083@ncsc.ARPA>
Reply-To: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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In article <8609111546.AA03083@ncsc.ARPA> moore@NCSC.ARPA (Moore) writes:
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>Recent reviews have mentioned that 1ST_WORD limits you to only single spaced
>documents.  Is there a work around for this, other than by adjusting stuff on
>the printer?  
>
>jim moore
>ncsc

This rumor (along with several others I could mention) is due to the 
horrendously huge lag time on many magazine articles. I have been reading
for the past several monthes about how 1st Word does not double space.
As I understand it, the *pre* release of 1st Word (the one send out to
columnists middle of last year) did not have double spacing. I received
my 1st Word in January of this year...I can assure you, it does have
double spacing...

...other rumors because of huge lead times on magazine articles? I just
read the *September 1986* issue of "Consumer Reports." It was comparing
the Atari 520ST to the Amiga. Among the phrases I particularly liked:

     "...the disadvantage to the Atari is that TOS resides in RAM 
      memory, thereby giving the user only slightly better than 
      256K...although we understand that later releases of the
      Atari will have TOS in ROM..."

Also eluded to was the lack of software for both machines, the fact that
they just came out, etc etc etc. It became very obvious that the Consumer
Report research was done sometime in 1985, and the CR editors just got
around to sticking it in their magazine in the fourth quarter of 1986.

This is a problem that tends to hurt the product being reviewed rather
than help...


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