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Re: Nisus from Paragon Concepts, Inc.

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From: Jonathan King
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 1988 17:51
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simon@alberta.UUCP (Simon Tortike) recently asked:

*Does anyone know if this word processor is going to be marketed soon?  We have
*seen quite a few overviews of the program on the net in the last six months but
*I have not seen anything in the popular Mac-mags.   How about some speculation
*on its eventual availability?

At the MacWorld expo, the developers (i.e. the people who actually were writing
the code) were shooting for November, and the version they were showing
certainly seemed pretty stable.  While I was gawking at the Paragon booth, some
younger programmers from Apple bounced up to the booth and critiqued the
implementation of the Macintosh interface down to some pretty minute details.
By and large they seemed very impressed, and compared Nisus very favorably
to WordPerfect for the Mac, which they poked a lot of fun at.  My impression of
Nisus was that it was a very fast and capable word-processor with a nice
macro-generating facility and particularly powerful search and replace features.
Some of the other advanced features you may have heard about are nice, but I
wish that companies would stop trying to integrate every possible function into
their programs in this age of Multifinder.

jking

disclaimer:  I have no connection with Paragon Concepts and in fact do not own
any of their products.
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