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From: tony@ur-cvsvax.UUCP (Tony Movshon)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: easy word proc?
Message-ID: <136@ur-cvsvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 01:13:28 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  4 01:13:28 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 05:46:31 EST
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> I recently did a major proposal for one of the major banks here in
> town.  They needed some very spiffy word processor capabilities, as
> well as Wang compatability, etc.
> 
> There was only one word processor that really was good (in my opinion)
> enough to satisfy them:
> 
> MASS-11/PC
> 
> Wonderful little program....
> 
> You can get it through Micro-Electronic Systems in New Jersey...
> Sorry, I don't have the telco number handy.....
> 
> And, of course, I have no affiliation with them.
> 
> 
> Ross M. Greenberg  @ NYU   ---->  allegra!cmcl2!acf4!greenber  <----

Yes, but ...
(There's always a but)

MASS-11/PC is a pretty impressive word processing package for the IBM PC or
DEC Rainbow. It is, however, ENORMOUS (well over 1 Mbyte of code), uses a
silly menu-driven interface which arbitrarily restricts your path among its
subprograms, runs uncomfortably slowly (at least on the Rainbow screen)
unless you have applied the speedup patch to DOS 2.05, does not allow the
user to patch printer or terminal output patterns, keeps files in some
silly record format rather than ASCII.

Among the plusses, it must be said, are three text editors (including a
creditable imitation of EDT), pretty reasonable equation formatting, table
of contents, indexing, etc. Lots of bells and whistles.

Moral: if you have a hard disk and can afford the steep purchase price,
it's worth a try. But don't go overboard.

Needless to say, I have no connection with Microsystems.

Tony Movshon		{allegra|ihnp4|seismo}!cmcl2!hipl!tony
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