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From: voder!optilink!cramer@decwrl.dec.com (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Yuppie software
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Date: 21 Jan 88 19:32:49 GMT
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>      The overwhelming micro and workstation software trend in 1987 was
> desktop publishing:  Yuppie-ism at its finest.  Extravagant, ostentatious,
> conspicuous and expensive, desktop publishing clearly demonstrates that
> personal computing has reached boutique status.  Now even the merest 
> memo must look as if it were published by Prentice-Hall.

I think this overstates the case, but I've seen quite a bit of this myself
(and been guilty of a bit of it, too).  Suddenly, even the most trivial
memo in this place uses at least two font families, and two or more type
sizes.

I shudder to think how much time is getting wasted by runaway laser printing.

Clayton E. Cramer
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