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From: anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson, MACC)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: ventura
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Date: 3 May 89 09:55:29 GMT
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In article <3719@nunki.usc.edu>, sawant@nunki.usc.edu (Abhay Sawant) writes...

]In article <2008@trantor.harris-atd.com> chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:

]>     Place the disk in the floppy drive, and then place the entire machine
]>in your trash can.  Buy a Sun-3/{60,80} or SPARCstation-1, and then buy
]>Frame Maker.

]Maybe you haven't bothered to understand Ventura better.  I've checked
]Frame Maker: Ventura on a fast AT leaves it in the dust i.t.o. sheer
]power and ease of use.

]A little less smug complacence would be helpful... the PC world has a
]lot to teach outfits like Sun.

]You're never too old to have a happy childhood.

Great quote!  Let's face it, the perfect tool is one that
does the job for you while you take a nap.  In the world of
publishing there are no perfect tools.  Ventura, PageMaker,
Frame Maker and a couple others are middle-of-the-line
products, after all.  There are products that do more or
do it better or do it faster on more advanced platforms,
but in the world of ordinary publishing work for which
they were designed, products like PageMaker on either Mac
or PC platforms or VP on PCs (I have no Frame Maker 
experience) are very powerful tools.

The "my thingie can beat up your thingie" stance is not
helpful here because it's irrelevant.

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