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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Potential buyer's questions
Message-ID: <659@boing.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 89 05:26:48 GMT
References: <2014@pur-phy>
Reply-To: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Organization: Boing, Milpitas, Ca.
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In article <2014@pur-phy> ray@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (Ray Moody) writes:
>with its multi- tasking.  However, the quality of the desktop publishing
>environment for the machine will probably be the deciding factor.

FrameMaker from Frame Technolgies looks great on the Amiga. We had
their displays up on both the moniterm (1008x800) and an appleII style
monitor hooked up to an A500. The characters and graphics looks very
professional as well as when their people tried it out on the amiga's
the complemented the responsiveness.

Oh yes, this was running under X11. Frame was actually running on an
Sun3 or an HP machine. (They had versions for both). If you had a
department that could use a dtp package. Getting a unix machine to
actually run their code and a bunch of Amiga's would be a perfectly
workable solution.
   If you are alone though, we'll have to wait till they decide to port
their code to the Amiga. Should not be that hard once the Xlib is
available for the Amiga for one of the C compilers.

-- 
Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
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