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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 00:07:36 EDT
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- From: "Robert W. Binkley" <rbinkley@UWOVAX.UWO.CA>
- Subject: NBI business practices
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- I think Clifford Flanigan's Saturday flame, or rather blaze, about
- the way NBI has carriedon its business is (a) right on the mark and (b)
- very appropriate for this list.
- One consequence of being a dedicated NB user is that you get asked
- by colleagues and students who are just getting binto computing
- whether they should invest in NB or joing the crowd with WordPerfect,
- or etc. A year ago I would advise NB without much hesitation, but
- now I am not at all so sure. NB is, as Flanigan says, the best DOS
- word processor, but there are all these other issues, and Flanigan's
- letter has helped me very much in bringing these issues into focus.
- And as to relevance for this list--Well, helping me in my role
- (unwished for but inescapable) of local NB guruis one of the things
- I look for this list to do.
- What advice do other list users give to new computer users? Do they
- worry that ina few year's time NB may enjoy about the same status
- as that presently enjoyed by the Cord autoobile or the Kaypro version
- of PerfectWriter?
- Robert W. Binkley: Department of Philosophy (rbinkley@uwovax.uwo.ca)
- University of Western Ontario: London, Ont. N6A 3K7, CANADA
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