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From: jb@aablue.UUCP (John B Scalia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: CHINESE & KOREAN WORDPROCESSORS NEEDED URGENTLY!
Summary: He's referring to Viewpoint
Keywords: Chinese Korean Word-processor
Message-ID: <562@aablue.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 89 12:53:49 GMT
References: <28768@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1225@cmtl01.UUCP>
Reply-To: jb@aablue.UUCP (John B Scalia)
Organization: A A Blueprint Co., Inc. - Akron, OH
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In article <1225@cmtl01.UUCP> albert@cmtl01.UUCP (Albert Luk) writes:
>In article <28768@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, hullp@cogsci.berkeley.edu (             ) writes:
>> I am in urgent need of both a Korean and Chinese (Mandarin with the new
>> simplified characters from the PRC preferred) wordprocessor.  I already
>> own WordPerfect so a program that simply reconfigures the keyboard to
> [deleted for brevity]
>
>  a Chinese word processor called "Tin Ma".  I have seen a Xerox workstation
>  bundled with multi-lingual fonts and dictionaries for Chinese, Japanese etc.
>  and the Xerox laser printer prints out letter quality Chinese characters.

The Xerox workstation he's referring to is based on their 6085 platform and
goes by the sale name of Documentor. Its word processor is called Viewpoint.
Compared to PC based WP, it makes them look like the toys they are. It offers
more than a dozen languages including: Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, all
European languages, Cyrillic, Greek, and a some special ones like
Greek, Logic, Math, Office, Graphics.

This unit is pretty much good for just WP although they offer PC emulation
and a couple of other programs for it. You cannot run other (3rd party) 
applications in Viewpoint; I don't believe anybody writes for it. Plus,
this beast is fairly expensive, at least when you're used to PC's. If
you want the extended language support, get the 80MB disk with it and all
the RAM you can (it holds 3.7MB), you'll need it. Be prepared to spend
$25,000 minimum plus a quarterly maintenance fee of more than $500.

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