🚀 go-pugleaf

Three tidbits from the "New Products" section of the November issue of IEEE
Computer, quoted without permission:

   "Microsoft has announced Word version 4.0 for the IBM PC...
   "A new toggle switch between text and graphics modes allows users to
enter data in the text mode and toggle to graphics mode to see the text
displayed on the screen as it will appear on the printed page.
   "...Macro functions can be created using a record mode...
   "Summary sheets for each document and the ability to search for words
and phrases...
   "Other new features include redlining, a spreadsheet link, style-by-
example style sheets, integration of the spelling checker, line drawing and
paragraph borders..."
   [Can we expect Word 4.0 for the Mac soon?  I have quoted at length
because I don't know which of these "new" features Mac Word 3.0 already has.]

   "Interleaf has announced Interleaf Publisher document-processing
software for the Apple Macintosh II... Interleaf Publisher costs $2495.  It
uses a Macintosh II with five megabytes of RAM and a 40M-byte hard disk.  A
complete system, including hardware, software, and one year's support,
costs $10,900.  With an Apple Laserwriter Plus printer, the system costs
$16,500."

   "Varityper's VT600 laser  printer reputedly achieves a resolution of 600
dots per inch both vertically and horizontally.  It comes with a Postscript
raster image processor that employs Adobe System' M68020-based Atlas board
with six megabytes of RAM... Typestyles can be downloaded to the VT600's
20M-byte Winchester disk.
   "... Rated speed of 10 pages per minute...
   "The VT600 supports Appletalk...
   "$13,500"
   [Is six megabytes enough?]