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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 19:21:46 -0400
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- From: Tirzah Meacham <meacham@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
- Subject: Re: Mavericks
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- Who will buy NB4 is not the question?-- obviously from the complaints
- many have ordered it. However, for the special language work I do it
- is necessary. How many people are like me in special language needs? I
- do not know. But if NBI tailors its market for the special language
- needs of academics it could have a long life span in the specialty
- market. As a general word processor to the public it will fail, but to
- our specific needs, if it meets them it will succeed as the text book
- market succeeds. There are enough students coming along each year to
- keep it in business if it meets needs. NB3 actually met my needs
- except for scaleable fonts in foreign alphabets. Now that we have
- those, it is viable the way it is. NBI could work from home now just
- selling to its select market and developing CD ROM reference software
- compatible with NB for its market. If they try to do a WP imtitation,
- theyre a dollar short and a day late. By the way the University of
- Toronto computer science center used to sell and support NB. They
- totally dropped it a year ago or more. Does anyone know how well NB4's
- conversion from/to WordPerfect works-- that is another feature that
- will keep it going as a specialty item-- compatibility with what our
- secretaries and Journals use.
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-
- Herb Basser
-