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From: kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: DWB 1.0 vs DWB 2.0
Message-ID: <230@elan.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 15:01:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: elan.230
Posted: Wed Oct 21 15:01:20 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Oct-87 07:48:06 EDT
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Organization: Elan Computer Group, Palo Alto, CA
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in article <705@hsi.UUCP>, stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) says:
> 
> We're considering upgrading from Documenter's Workbench Release 1.0
> to DWB 2.0.  Does anyone know what the differences are ??
> I've heard a rumor that the ditroff with 2.0 is much (??) faster.

We ran benchmarks across the board from PCs to MicroVaxs to 
Mainframes and DWB 2.0 is indeed 2X faster than DWB 1.0!

It's also got:

  1. An improved EQN with some new goodies like file include
     and parameterized macros.
  2. An improved PIC with programability (for loops, etc.)
  3. A new program GRAP for plots and graphs (replaces all
     those weird plotting tools you used to get with UNIX.)
  4. Tools SUBJ and NDX for creating an index!
  5. Nroff has ASCII terminal tables -- no more compiling tabxyz.c --
     you can modify them yourself easily now.
  6. Troff is mostly unchanged (except for being twice as fast.)
     The only addition I recall is the \s(nn to set point size to nn.

WARNING:  If you get DWB 2.0 from AT&T expect a very buggy product
	  and no support for any reasonable printers.  You would
	  be wise to go to a third party that *supports* DWB and 
	  *laser printers* (welcome to the 1980s!)

	  Hope I don't sound too much like an add, but we are one
	  such company.  For info on our package Eroff, contact...

	  Elan Computer Group, Inc.
	  410 Cambridge Avenue, Suite A
	  Palo Alto, CA 94306
	  415-322-2450

Ken Greer
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