From: Michael Sattler <msattler@jungle.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 95 22:06:06 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: FrameMaker, LaTeX, Mac, PC, UNIX, ...
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At 21:13 1/25/95, Timothy C. May wrote:

>...but to say that
>popular applications can be--and have been--ported to Unix. Many of
>you presumably have first-hand knowledge of this, with apps like
>Mathematica, FrameMaker, WordPerfect, etc. on Unix boxes as well as
>PCs and Macs.

I say this only to defend by Pedantics degree, but I believe that
FrameMaker was originally a UNIX product that was horribly ported to the
Macintosh.  (I had the unfortunate experience of using the first Mac
incarnotion; I racked up some pretty good karma... :-)

>This is separate, I think, from the issue of teaching secretaries
>LaTex...that sounds truly evil. (8-))

Did that ;-)  It's amazing how much of office routine can be done with the
simple application of cut-and-paste boilerplate.

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