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Greg Csullog writes:

"Larry Rymal feels that ST software is not as polished as packages on other
machines. In some cases I have to agree. When he says that ST software costs
more I begin to see red!"

    I regretted that statement the second I typed it, but I was trying
to establish a point, but wasn't too good at it.  Note that I was not
saying all software as was quoted above.
    My point is the roughness of the software and I don't think that
because of 'cheapness' (?) of the ST that we have to have rough soft-
ware.  Is DungeonMaster rough?  Oids?  Joust?
    That the ST *can* have polished software is my point.  Look at
the Dr. T's MIDI programs.  Look at Tim Purves' BBS program series.
The price issue is one I wish that I didn't raise.
    I did that because I wish that I didn't have to emulate to get
what I want, especially from a writer's point of view.  In my case,
I want to see EXACTLY what I'm going to get on the printer.  We
don't have an affordable package yet that is capable of doing that.
Note that I said that TimeWorks DeskTop Publisher comes close but it
is not a word processor.
    FullWrite (MAC) can be had for $108.00 if one is an educator or
full time post-secondary student.  It is a fast word processor with
desktop publishing tools.  Calamus (sp?) costs much more, is limited
on its fonts, is not intuitive (although with the pirates, I wouldn't
want it to be too intuitive), and is not easy to use.
    I still feel that we can and deserve better software.  Calamus is
the only package that I was using with my price argument and really
regret that I put that to be taken as all software.  But I will argue
that most of our commercial grade software has been buggy and we
don't deserve such.

Larry Rymal <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>