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From: Brian Diehm
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1987 23:33

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A quote from the Mac The Knife column in MacWeek, Oct 6, 1987:

"Ever heard of turning your weaknesses into strengths?  The promotional ad for
 Ashton-Tate's new desktop-publishing software, Byline, contains the following
 inside the front cover of the brochure: 'Because Byline works the way you do,
 you don't waste time with a mouse or learning a Macintosh-like graphics envir-
 onment.  Byline works the way PC software is supposed to work.  Familiar func-
 tions and navigational keys and predictable standard operations means that
 desktop publishing is no longer just for full-time graphics artists.'

The Knife goes on to wryly comment:

"Whew.  Just when it looked like we were all going to have this mouse-driven
 graphics interface shoved down our throats, here's Ashton-Tate to the rescue.

-- 
-Brian Diehm     (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply)
Tektronix, Inc.
briand@tekig4.TEK.COM   or  {decvax,cae780,uw-beaver}!tektronix!tekig4!briand

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Keywords: Humor, Sour Grapes, IBM means I Became Macintosh