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Article #960Re: Yuppie software
From: Clayton Cramer
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1988 19:32
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1988 19:32
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> The overwhelming micro and workstation software trend in 1987 was
> desktop publishing: Yuppie-ism at its finest. Extravagant, ostentatious,
> conspicuous and expensive, desktop publishing clearly demonstrates that
> personal computing has reached boutique status. Now even the merest
> memo must look as if it were published by Prentice-Hall.
I think this overstates the case, but I've seen quite a bit of this myself
(and been guilty of a bit of it, too). Suddenly, even the most trivial
memo in this place uses at least two font families, and two or more type
sizes.
I shudder to think how much time is getting wasted by runaway laser printing.
Clayton E. Cramer
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