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> I have just started a Desktop Publishing  Service  business, called
> The  Desktop  Solution  and am now in the process of purchasing
> equipment and software.  My plan is to offer this DTP  service  to
> small  businesses  for  the  production of newsletters, brochures,
> company reports and manuals.

Ventura runs pretty nimbly on just about anything, so if cost is an
issue, you can get just about any fast AT (or even XT) clone.  And I'd
look at the Xerox "Nutshell" full page display.  (Someone else besides
Xerox sells it, but I'm not sure who it is.)  I haven't used the Wyse
700, but from the advertisements I've seen, the aspect ratio looks
wrong for a full-page display.  (Is it really full page?)

Also, I don't know the Laserjet II, but...  We used to use the old
LaserJet and switched to the LaserWriter because of the advantages of
PostScript--one of which is an easy path to typesetting if your users
want better quality than the laser printer offers.  There are now quite
a few service bureaus (including our own) which provide PostScript
typesetting services at a very reasonable cost.  If you are using a
PostScript laser printer, you can send the identical output file to the
typesetter.

So I guess I'm calling all of your choices into question, except
Ventura--not so much from a definite opinion that there is anything
wrong with your choices as the sense, from your posting, that you had
not researched all of the alternatives.

One other point, in a positive vein:  if you are going to be doing long
documents, and you have a UNIX frame of mind, you should really get MKS
toolkit, from Mortice Kern Systems, in Waterloo, Ontario.  This
provides goodies like awk and sed on the PC, which you can use to edit
the text files ventura keeps in parallel with the formatted "chapter
files."  This gives you editing power for the cases where wysiwyg
doesn't cut the mustard.

The ability to work with either a coded file using powerful
text editing tools, or in wysiwyg mode, is what makes
Ventura stand out from the competition, in my opinion. 
-- 
Tim O'Reilly (617) 527-4210
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Publishers of Nutshell Handbooks
981 Chestnut Street, Newton, MA 02164
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