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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Brief overview of FullWrite (Re
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Date: 24 May 88 21:09:42 GMT
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Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
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In article <15200015@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>I think the real problem is that the right combination of features/per-
>formance has not been found in a lot of programs.  And that may be because
>it makes good ad copy to say ``Our word processor does it ALL'', while to say
>``Our word processor is really FAST'' doesn't seem to make it nowadays.

In the IBM PC world, Xywrite has made a name for themselves for just
that reason -- they have a user-interface from hell (they use a
command-line for everything), but they're fast fast fast.