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In article <Bw3I6E.IqJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
>andrew@cubetech.com writes
>> NeXTSTEP sure does come with a word-processor!  It's called Edit.
>
>The inability of Edit (even with RTF) to do footnotes, page numbering, headers
>and footers makes Edit most unusable as a word processor.  It's a nice text  
>editor for code and informal letters, but it's certainly no replacement for  
>even the simplest of modern word processors.  Also, NeXTs inoperative spell  
>checker and lack of integrated thesaurus work against Edit being anything more
>than a fancy code editor.
>
>I wonder if this is part of a unbundling plan or part of a plan to make the  
>common denominator something NeXT can do as well (the majority of modern  
>computers can read and write ASCII at the very least).

Really though, I don't find it even slightly unreasonable for NeXT to
"require" that go out and purchase a third-party word-processor.  Why
don't you just go out and buy WordPerfect, or even WriteNow?


andrew
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