Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> > Terry Collins wrote:
> >
> > Latex
>
> I must have got the wrong impression about this thread - I didn't think it
> involved torture. ;) Markup is well and good for precise techies, but I
> don't think Latex is an appropriate tool to drop on someone's desktop
I'm not sure whether to take that as a complement or what.
I consider Latex as no more difficult as any other word processor, but
then I did start with Spellbinder on CPM with only .Y & .YT for
formatting.
> The sorts of things non-profits (and similarly, small businesses) need are
> simple information processing machines. Most information processing is
> suited to text/console interfaces
You are starting to talk application development?
Are you proposing this for CB as well?
> I work with bookshops,
> and their software is either DOS-based, or Frankensteinian in it's
> conversion to GUIness.
This is exactly what happens everywhere. A great simple text based
app, working wonderfully, cost thousands of dollars to convert and
maintain as a badly working GUI.
>
> Other posters are correct in saying the hardware is easily found. I have a
> few boxes in my cupboard, a couple at work, and I can sit and wait until a
> certain PHB I know gets sick of trying to make money on some old 486es!
Don't bother. 1-Just make sure the boxes are in his office, or 2-Pile
all the junk together so it is an obvious eye sore, particularly where
senior management can see it {:-) - a decision will be made.
> I'm interested to see where these discussions lead.
Hopefully a functioning CB.
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