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From: root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: TeX on average crts.
Message-ID: <468@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 19:38:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  5 19:38:15 1985
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Just to throw my 2c in, ya oughta see what Xerox is doing with their
systems: What you see is what you get editors (full font on 1K X 1K
bit-mapped screens), ethernet print servers, integrated graphics and a
lot more though last I saw they were *not* up to speed on technical
typing (should be easy for them, there are some glimmers in the latest
release of this happening.) Also, integrated text/research data-bases
(ask about NoteCards.) My experience is on their Dandelions.

I personally think that batch oriented text processors are on their way
out rapidly (except maybe as intermediate languages.) Use troff/nroff if
you need preview till your real system arrives.  As the expression goes,
you're probably kicking a dead whale up the beach. (hey, Fortran was
great in its time also.)

	-Barry Shein, Boston University

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