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From: lean@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Lean L. Loh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: sink or swim (publishing partner, virus)
Message-ID: <1088@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 88 01:18:07 GMT
References: <88032219051620D.AFQC@Mars.UCC.UMass.EDU> <401@bnl.ARPA>
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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Summary: Publishing Partner, virus

In article <401@bnl.ARPA>, drs@bnl.ARPA (David R. Stampf) writes:
.......
> for a while.  Some nifty free programs, good languages and games.  But there
> were problems too - nothing was forthcomming from atari nor developers
> to bring it into the mainstream - no really top notch business programs,
> publishing programs and the like.  You don't have to be an expert on quality
> publishing to look at the output of -say- personal publisher to see that
> nobody would use it for anything important - the output of that program was
> worse than an ordinary typewriter.  The only area where the ST seemed to be
> doing well was in the music area - and while that's pretty nice, you can't
> build a computer market on that narrow a base.
> ......

  I suppose you haven't seen many publishing programs for the ST.  
Publishing Partner from SoftLogik is decent.  Using a 24-pin printer can
get you almost laser-like output.  And if you know some tricks, a 9-pin
printer can get you amazing output too.  Of course, using a laser printer
gets you awesome quality. And the new features in PP.Professinal should
make it really top notch.

> Having recently purchased a Mac, I am totally amazed by how much thought
> has been placed in the operating system and the general design of the system.
> Sure it suffers from a poor screen, but drawing, scrooling and the ability
> to use fonts clearly are better than anything that Atari has come up with
> - or is likely to in the future.  

Sure, the OS in the ST isn't something to shout about, but that area has
been hacked to bits.   Still the ST is a decent machine.   I played on the
Mac SE a while, and have not touched it since.  The screen is just too small
to do anything for a long period of time.

BTW, there's a VIRUS exterminator program at the Houston server (UACE) for
those of us who are nervous.  Thanks to the authors.
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