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Wicked Fast IIfx Retired

Of all the changes to Apple's product lineup that took place on 15-Apr-92, the quietest was the departure of the Macintosh IIfx. The high-end Macintosh II offering has never quite fit into the product line, thanks to some engineering oddities and, of course, the eventual appearance of the Quadra series. The IIfx remained on Apple's rolls this long probably because of its six NuBus slots as much as anything else

Mark H. Anbinder No comments

AppleShare Upgrade Offer Ends

Apple has announced that its AppleShare 3.0 upgrade offer will be ending at the end of April. The offer, introduced last fall with the new version of the file server software, allows owners of previous versions to upgrade free or at a reduced price. The company plans to honor upgrade requests until 30-Apr-92, even though the offer was originally scheduled to end on 01-Apr-92

Adam Engst No comments

Administrivia

Stimpson J. Millians writes: "The Ashton-Tate/Fox suit got dropped as a result of the Borland/Ashton-Tate suit buyout. It was part of the Justice Department anti-trust agreement

Adam Engst No comments

Tune-Up Printing Bug

Tune-Up Printing Bug -- Geoff Bronner writes: In the hoopla surrounding the release of Tune-Up 1.1 and its companion files one thing has gone unmentioned

Mark H. Anbinder No comments

Sorry, Charlie! (Tune-Up Recalled)

What could be more embarrassing than having to release a bug fix to protect users from a bug that can destroy their data? Having to release a bug fix to protect users from the first bug fix! Apple was embarrassed in just this way last week, when they realized that System 7 Tune-Up 1.1 was defective, and needed to be replaced

Adam Engst No comments

RFI Interference Letter

From Cliff Wildes, President and CEO of Microtech International To the Editor: Recent articles and discussions in the Macintosh community have focused on safety concerns related to the marvelous machinery we rely on for our work and enjoyment

Adam Engst No comments

RFI Follow-up

Just so you don't all think I'm being a slug and just printing the above letter to the editor, here's some more information that might be of interest on this subject. Essentially, there are two levels of FCC certification, A and B

Adam Engst No comments

Claris Windows Rumors

We've been muttering about a version of FileMaker Pro for Windows for quite some time now, and we've finally gotten some confirmation of that project. Claris reportedly showed an early version of FileMaker Pro running under Windows in a private suite at Comdex last week

Adam Engst No comments

The TrashMan Cometh

When I was growing up, my family took our garbage to the town dump every week. The best part was tossing it over the cliff, and much of the excitement went out of the weekly expedition when the dump was full and the town bought a trash compactor truck (which could be fun on occasion if it actually compacted the trash while you were there)

Matt Neuburg No comments

More Bells

If you want just one or two side-by-side paragraphs, or a short stretch of material in a different columnization from your document, you can have it, provided it does not involve run-over to a second page: the Paragon people have gone to the elaborate trouble of building a Place Page facility into the program

Matt Neuburg No comments

A Miscellany of Nits

I have said nothing up to now about the manual. I'll try to be brief about this: Unless it has been heavily rewritten since the version that came with Nisus 3.01, the manual is frankly bad

Matt Neuburg No comments

Nisus Conclusions

Adam and I each get a separate say here, since our differing uses for a computer give us differing orientations on Nisus (though we are in agreement over the details of Nisus's strengths and weaknesses). [Matt] For large documents with layout needs such as tables, Nisus cannot compete with Word

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Nisus Details

Nisus 3.06 Paragon Concepts 990 Highland Dr., Suite 312 Solana Beach CA 92075 800/922-2993 619/481-1477 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Price and Availability: -- Nisus is readily available from most mail order houses for approximately $250

Matt Neuburg No comments

Rulers and Styles – I

The horizontal ruler area at the top of a text window contains the expected formatting tools: you can set the paragraph containing the insertion point to be ragged-right, ragged-left, centered, or right-and-left justified; you can insert four kinds of tabs; increment or decrement line leading and paragraph leading; and, of course, slide the wrapping margins

Matt Neuburg No comments

Rulers and Styles – II

The Paragon people at some point decided that this way of working with formats was incomplete, and so a second level of hierarchy is included, Named Rulers