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From: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Desktop publishing systems?
Message-ID: <1429@zen.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 12:38:03 GMT
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Reply-To: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
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In article <831@io.UUCP> david@io.UUCP (David Weinberger x5563) writes:
>Let me add some information to Robert Scott's message. (I work for Interleaf.)
>
>o TPS on Sun, Digital and Apollo goes for $2,500 for the Core version (text
>and graphics.)
>
>o Interleaf Publisher is available on 386's and on the Macintosh II for
>$2,495. It is feature-for-feature the same as TPS 3.0. (We've just shipped TPS
>4.0.) That means it combines full word processing, diagramming, data-driven
>charts, automatic page layout, network workgroup tools, long document
>management capabilities, tables and even a line art image editor.

Doesn't anybody write document preperation systems for Hewlett-Packard
bit-mapped displays?

Don't you like them ? Is there something wrong with them ?

I'm serious about this. When I hear about a new funky piece of software I find
that I'll probably never be able to run it without someone buying me a Sun
workstation. The Sun workstation (as far as I can see) has very little to
separate it performance-wise and market-wise for a publishing system.

Please will some one explain it to me?

					vic
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